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Iran on Friday hanged a Kurdish man viewed as a political prisoner by activists, rights groups said, amplifying alarm over the soaring number of executions in the country this year. Mohayyedin Ebrahimi, 43, was hanged at dawn at Urmia…
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Iranian authorities have executed 55 people in 2023, Norway-based Iran Human Rights said on Friday, adding that the surging use of the death penalty aims to create fear as protests shake the country. Meanwhile, rights group Amnesty…
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Japan on Tuesday executed a man convicted of killing seven people in a truck ramming and stabbing rampage in Tokyo’s popular Akihabara electronics district in 2008, the justice ministry said. Justice Minister Yoshihisa Furukawa said…
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Sudan’s military accused Ethiopia’s army of executing seven Sudanese soldiers and a civilian who were captives, the Sudanese armed forces said in a statement on Sunday. The Sudanese army also accused Ethiopia of displaying the bodies of…
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The Iran-backed Houthi militia on Saturday publicly executed nine people charged with involvement in the killing of the militia’s leader Saleh Al-Samad in 2018. The Houthi-controlled SABA news agency said on Saturday that “the Public…
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Six Iraqis sentenced to death, three for “terrorism,” were hanged on Monday in a prison in southern Iraq, a medical source said. The source said the hangings took place in Nasiriyah Prison, where death row prisoners are held. Those not…
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A Kansas woman, who strangled a pregnant mother and cut her baby out from her womb over a decade ago, has been put to death by the U.S. government — the first time in nearly seven decades for a female inmate. On Wednesday morning, Lisa…
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