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An undated picture of French national Benjamin Briere, who was arrested in Iran in 2020, obtained from the Twitter account of lawyer Saeid Dehghan

IRAN SPYING CHARGES

Frenchman faces death penalty as Iran confirms spying charges

New French poll shows 55 percent of people are in favour of reinstating the death penalty in France. Ipsos/Steria Sept 2020

Crime & Punishement

Massive jump in number of French people in favour of the death penalty - poll

Bashir is in detention in Sudan after he was tried and convicted of corruption charges

Sudan's Bashir goes on trial for 1989 coup d'etat

Cameroon girls- Boko Haram

These girls escaped Boko Haram, now they face lengthy jail terms in Cameroon

File picture dated April 29, 2010 shows an Iraqi soldier standing guard in front of prisoners waiting to be released from Al-Rusafa detention facility in Baghdad.

French jihadists appeal to UN to avoid death penalty

File photo: Former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf is escorted by soldiers on his arrival at an anti-terrorism court in Islamabad, 20 April 2013.

Pakistan sentences former president Musharraf to death for treason

Former death row prisoner and prison reform advocate Pete Ouko was invited by the organisation 'Together Against the Death Penalty' to tell his story, Paris, 9 October 2019

Kenya-Justice-World Day Against Death Penalty

Kenyan ex-death row prisoner campaigns against capital punishment

An albino boy and his friend in Luwerezi, Malawi

Malawi - albinism

Death penalty handed down for three albino killers in Malawi

Felix Dorfin arrives at a court on Lombok island, 20 May 2019

Indonesian court commutes French drug smuggler's death sentence

Senator Abdulfatai Buhar Representing Oyo North, Oyo State

Focus on Africa: Nigerian Senator seeks death penalty for kidnappers

A man walks out of Baghdad's Karkh main appeals court building in the western sector of the Iraqi capital on May 29, 2019 where French jihadists accused of belonging to the IS are being tried.

France Islamic State

Rights groups hail French position on jihadists facing execution in Iraq

Mustapha Merzoughi was mainly active in Aleppo. The city's Salaheddine district here visible on 13 April 2019.

Fourth French citizen given death penalty in Iraq for IS membership

Heavy smoke rises above the Islamic State armed group's last remaining position in the village of Baghouz during battles with the Syrian Democratic Forces in the eastern Syrian province of Deir Ezzor, 18 March 2019.

Three French jihadists sentenced to death in Iraq

A road in Bruneï, with public portraits of Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah and Queen Saleha.

France urges Brunei to drop anti-gay stoning law

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet attends the Human Rights Council at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, 10 September 2018.

UN blasts 'inhuman' Brunei law on stoning for gay sex, adultery

127 bags of Captagon seized from the Islamic State armed group before being destroyed May 31, 2018

Saudi Arabia - human rights

Jordaniain citizen sentenced to death looks into questionable judiciary in Saudi Arabia

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan leaves Eyup Sultan mosque in Istanbul, April 17, 2017.

Turkey - France

Turkish vote on death penalty would 'break with European values': France

Islamabad in Pakistan

International report

Death row prisoners in Pakistan

Young Ali Mohammed Al-Nimr.

Activists campaign to stop Saudi youth's crucifixion as kingdom heads UN rights panel

Socialist activist and poet Shaimaa al-Sabbagh was taking flowers to the site of Tahrir Square killings when she was shot dead

Coup, repression fail to stamp out Egyptian military's enemies

Activists protested in Kabul on March 24 demanding justice for Farkhunda.

Afghan woman killers' death sentences overturned

Gambian President Yahya Jammeh

Regime keen to make capital punishment easier

Serge Atlaoui at one of his court appearances

France 'mobilised' to save national from Indonesian firing squad

A demonstration in the Philippines in April calls for the lifting of the death sentence on Filipina Mary Jane Veloso

FRANCE - indonesia

Indonesia postpones death row Frenchman’s appeal to 13 May

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