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Iran sentences three more protesters to death, amid global outrage
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Amid the global unrest over the civil unrest triggered by Mahsa Amini's death, the Iranian judiciary on Monday handed down three more death sentences, reported France24.
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Pakistan: Over 100 persons convicted, sentenced in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Over 100 persons were convicted and sentenced to death by Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa courts in 2022 and the total of prisoners with death sentences has crossed 450 including women, reported Pak vernacular media Aeen.
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UN rights chief alarmed at death sentences by Myanmar military courts
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
At least seven university students were sentenced to death by a military court on 30 November, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights said in a statement. There are reports of as many as four additional death sentences being issued against youth activists yesterd
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UN experts alarmed over Myanmar junta's decision to enforce death sentence
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], June 11 (ANI): The Myanmar junta's announced decision to enforce death sentences against four individuals, including two prominent activists, marks the start of what could be a spate of death pronouncements, two UN experts have warned.
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Myanmar: Junta vows to enforce death sentences
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
New York [US], June 8 (ANI): Myanmar's military junta announced on June 3, that it would execute four people whose appeals were rejected following grossly unjust closed-door trials, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said.
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US welcomes Saudi sentencing in Khashoggi killing, calls it an 'important
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], Dec 24 (ANI): The United States on Monday welcomed the death sentences issued against five people over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, and called the verdict an "important step" in achieving justice.
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DCW chief Swati Maliwal seeks justice for Nirbhaya
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 16 (ANI): Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) chief Swati Maliwal on Monday remembered Nirbhaya, seven years past the gruesome incident and urged the Central government to implement Andhra Pradesh's Disha law across the country which provides for awarding death sentences
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Will move SC to get death sentences for culprits: Irani after aide's funer
Updated : 6 years, 12 months ago IST
Amethi (Uttar Pradesh) [India], May 26 (ANI): Newly-elected BJP MP from Amethi, Smriti Irani on Sunday vowed to bring the culprits in Surendra Singh's murder case to the book, asserting that she will not hesitate to move even the Supreme Court if necessary to bring the perpetrators to justi
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Pak Army Chief confirms death sentences for 11 'hardcore terrorists'
Updated : 8 years ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 5 (ANI): Pakistan's Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa has confirmed death sentences for 11 "hardcore terrorists", the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said, in a statement, on Saturday.
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Bangladesh should meet global standards in dealing with BDR, says HRW
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
New York [USA], Nov.29 (ANI): The Bangladesh government should agree to new trials meeting international standards for members of the former Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) accused of mutiny and murder, including 139 whose death sentences were upheld on November 27, 2017, by the High Court, Human Ri
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Emir of Kuwait commutes death sentence of 15 Indian nationals to life impr
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sept 30 (ANI): Emir of Kuwait Sabah Al Ahmad Al Jaber Al Sabah has commuted the death sentences given to 15 Indians lodged in a Kuwaiti jail to life imprisonment.
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Most of them will get death penalty: Advocate on 1993 Mumbai blasts case
Updated : 8 years, 8 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharshtra) [India], Sep 7 (ANI): Ahead of the hearing which will pronounce the quantum of sentence of the accused in the 1993 Mumbai blasts, Advocate Deepak Salvi has indicated that most of the convicts are likely to get death sentences.
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