Spokesperson Liz Throssell said executions have been taking place almost daily over the past two weeks, following the end of a 21-month official moratorium. “The resumption of executions for drug-related offences in Saudi Arabia is a deeply regrettable step, all the more so coming just days after a wide majority...
“We deplore the hanging today of two men in Singapore and are deeply troubled by the planned execution of two others on 5 August,” OHCHR Spokesman Liz Throssell said in a statement. Drug crimes The two prisoners, a Malaysian and a Singaporean, were hanged at after being convicted in May...
The development came after Hamid Nouri – a former Iranian prosecutor and prison officer – was arrested at a Stockholm airport in 2019. He was later charged with war crimes and the mass murder of detainees in Iran in 1988, in line with an order issued by the then Supreme Leader...
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