•Iran’s hardline judiciary chief Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei Iranian authorities sentenced a 23-year-old student to death for blasphemy in social media posts, rights groups said, as the judiciary’s use of capital punishment on political charges mounts. Najmeh Amini was arrested in February in the northeastern city of Mashhad and sentenced to de...
•Anojan Sivarasa A 24-year-old Sri Lankan migrant worker is facing execution in Saudi Arabia after an appellate court sentenced him to death over a Facebook comment deemed blasphemous. Anojan Sivarasa was initially sentenced to five years in prison and fined three million Saudi riyals under Saudi Arabia’s cybercrime law, but his case took a dr...
•Sarah Khalifa sentenced to death by hanging An Egyptian court sentenced a well-known television presenter and 11 others to death for manufacturing and trafficking narcotics in a sprawling drugs case, official media reported yesterday. The presenter, Sarah Khalifa, 39, is best known for her programme “Mission Impossible”, which dealt with issu...
A High Court sitting in Anambra State and presided over by Justice Lauretta Oyeka has sentenced a commercial tricycle rider, Makua Ezike, to death by hanging after finding him guilty of murdering one Jude Onwuegbuchunam, an indigene of Umuoji in Idemili North Local Government Area of the state. According to the charge sheet obtained by [&helli...
The Akure Division of the Ondo State High Court has sentenced a lecturer at the College of Health Technology, Ijero-Ekiti, Ekiti State, Shittu Isiaka, to death by hanging for armed robbery. Justice Omolara Adejumo delivered the judgment after finding the lecturer guilty of conspiracy to commit armed robbery and armed robbery, reports The Natio...
A Kano State High Court has sentenced two men to death by hanging for killing a groom during a late-night robbery attack in Kano state. The convicts, Aliyu Hussaini and Amir Zakariyya, residents of Sheka Sabuwar Abuja Quarters and Unguwar Malam Quarters in Kumbotso Local Government Area were found guilty of conspiracy, armed robbery and [&hell...
•Governor Ahmadu Fintiri of Adamawa State A farmer, Sunday Jackson, sentenced to death by the Supreme Court for killing a Fulani herdsman in self-defense, has been granted pardon by Adamawa State governor, Ahmadu Fintiri. Recall that community leaders and the victim’s family have pleaded with the state governor to exercise his prerogative of m...
•Bangladesh’s ex- Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina A Bangladesh court today sentenced ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina to death for crimes against humanity, with cheers breaking out in the packed court as the judge read out the verdict. Hasina, 78, defied court orders that she return from India to attend her trial about whether she ordered [&he...
•Tinubu and Sanda President Bola Tinubu has pardoned Maryam Sanda, who was convicted of killing her husband, Bilyaminu Bello, in Abuja. Bello was the son of former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Chairman, Haliru Bello, reports Channels TV. Sanda was sentenced to death by hanging by Justice Yusuf Halilu of the Federal Capital Territory...
•Governor Umaru Bago of Niger State The Gaba Development Association in Lavun Local Council of Niger State has expressed strong dissatisfaction over the recent state pardon granted to eleven individuals sentenced to death by Justice Maimuna A. Abubakar of the Niger State High Court for the culpable homicide of seven unarmed members of the Gaba...
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