[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----worldwide

[Rick Halperin]

May 19



IRAQ:

In Iraq, the Russians subjected to the death penalty because of the involvement 
of the IG*



The Russian was found guilty of participation in criminal activities of the 
terrorist group "Islamic state."* This information was unveiled today, may 18, 
the Iraqi information portal "al-Ayin".

The criminal court considered the case of the Russians, accused of 
participation in combat operations on the side of the terrorists, finding him 
guilty. During sentencing, it became known that the man sentenced to the death 
penalty. At the moment we know only the name of the convict - Khasanov, while 
the rest of the details of the case continue to hold secret from the press.

Earlier journalists published secret information, according to which the 
beginning of 2018, the courts of Baghdad sentenced to death or life sentences 
of approximately 300 foreigners involved in terrorist activities.

* - The organization was prohibited in the territory of the Russian Federation 
decision of the Supreme court

(source: The Silver telegram)








IRAN----execution

A Man Hanged at Ardabil Prison



A prisoner was hanged at Ardabil Central Prison on murder charges.

According to a close source, on the morning of Wednesday, May 16, a prisoner 
was hanged at Ardabil Central Prison on murder charges. The prisoner, named 
Babak Rezaei, was sentenced to death and 10 years in prison on the charge of 
murder during an armed robbery. The robbery took place in October 2012.

According to a report by Tasnim news agency quoting the Public and 
Revolutionary Prosecutor of Ardabil, Naser Atabati, "The defendant was 41 years 
old and he committed armed robbery and murder with his accomplice."

It should be noted that during the last week, statistical department of Iran 
Human Rights (IHR) reported 11 executions in Iran.

According to Iran Human Rights annual report on the death penalty, 240 of the 
517 execution sentences in 2017 were implemented due to murder charges. There 
is a lack of a classification of murder by degree in Iran which results in 
issuing a death sentence for any kind of murder regardless of intensity and 
intent.

(source: Iran Human Rights)

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Death row political prisoner Ramin Hossein Panahi at the verge of execution



The case of death row political prisoner Ramin Hossein Panahi, has been sent to 
the office in charge of implementing executions, his lawyer Hossein Ahmadi Niaz 
said.

"On Thursday, May 17, when I went to the Sanandaj Court to investigate the 
lates status of my client I found that his case has been sent to the 
implementation of verdict unit," while expressing concern over the imminent 
execution of Ramin Hossein Panahi, Ahmadi Niaz announced.

He believes that the case has reached the implementation process much faster 
than other death row prisoners.

The political prisoner Ramin Hossein Panahi had been previously taken to a 
quarantine ward for his scheduled execution on May 2, 2018, but he was moved 
out of solitary confinement following international outcry by the UN and human 
rights groups over his scheduled execution.

Amnesty International released a statement on May 1, 2018, calling the Iranian 
authorities to quashed the death sentence and said, "Ramin Hossein Panahi's 
case has been a breathtaking miscarriage of justice from start to finish. After 
appearing at his trial reportedly bearing torture marks on his body he was 
convicted in less than an hour."

Ramin Hossein Panahi was sentenced to death in January 2018 for "taking up arms 
against the state" (baqi). His conviction was based upon his membership of the 
armed Kurdish opposition group Komala, but no evidence linking him to 
activities involving intentional killing - the required threshold under 
international law for imposing the death penalty - was presented at his trial.

(source: iran-hrm.com)








TUNISIA:

Tunisian government to review anti-terrorism law, says minister



Tunisia's Justice Minister said on Thursday that the government intends to 
review the anti-terrorism and anti-money laundering laws in line with domestic 
and international legislation.

"The review comes due to the emergence of many difficulties in applying the 
current anti-terrorism law," Ghazi Jeribi told the parliamentary General 
Legislation Committee. He explained that the review will focus mainly on the 
establishment of legal and institutional frameworks and procedures required to 
establish a mechanism to implement UN Security Council resolutions on 
preventing the spread of weapons of mass destruction.

"The law which established the Tunisian Counter-Terrorism Committee, the CTC, 
and gave it the authority to follow up on the implementation of UN resolutions 
related to the financing of terrorism," Jeribi pointed out, "did not explicitly 
refer to UN resolutions related to the prevention of weapons of mass 
destruction and this is what will be amended."

According to the minister, several chapters of the anti-terrorism law have been 
reviewed to be in line with Tunisian legislation issued after 2015 related to 
financial institutions, the central bank and the judicial and economic fields.

In July 2015, the Tunisian Parliament passed a law to combat terrorism and 
money laundering with a severe sentencing structure, including the death 
penalty.

(source: Middle East Monitor)








SUDAN:

Sudan teen's death penalty puts spotlight on women's rights



When a Sudanese teenager was sentenced to death last week for killing her 
husband, who had allegedly raped her, activists knew that a new fight had begun 
for women's rights in Sudan.

Noura Hussein, 19, received the sentence for the "intentional murder" of the 
man her father had forced her to marry.

"Noura is facing death. Her case has brought us close to an execution," said 
Sudanese women's rights activist Wini Omer, who witnessed the sentencing on May 
10.

"The situation is dangerous and necessitates taking women's rights more 
seriously so that we can protect them," she said.

Hussein's case has triggered outrage, with activists launching a campaign 
called "Justice For Noura" and the United Nations' women's agency appealing for 
clemency.

The teenager's plight has also focused attention on issues facing women in 
Sudan such as marital rape, child marriage, forced marriage and the arbitrary 
application of Islamic law, along with tribal traditions that often target 
women.

Rights group Amnesty International says Hussein was forcibly married at the age 
of 16, and that when she refused to consummate the marriage, her husband 
invited 2 of his brothers and a male cousin to help him rape her.

When he tried to rape her a 2nd time, she stabbed him to death, said Amnesty.

Sudanese law allows children above 10 to be married.

"In our arguments we raised the issue that it was a forced marriage and that 
she was raped," Hussein???s lawyer, Adil Mohamed al-Emam, told AFP.

"The court discussed it but did not recognise that she was raped."

Emam says he will appeal against the sentence.

'Regime ideology'

Days after Hussein was sentenced, another Sudanese woman was lashed 75 times at 
a police station in the Sudanese capital after a court found her guilty of 
marrying without her father's approval.

Omer has also faced the wrath of Sudan's controversial public order law, which 
she says primarily targets women.

In one case a prosecutor accused her of "indecent dressing," although she had 
worn a skirt, top and headscarf whilst waiting for a bus on a Khartoum street. 
A court found her not guilty.

In a 2nd case, Omer said she was accused of prostitution after police stormed 
an apartment where she was with friends. She was detained for 5 days.

"Women in Sudan have been systematically oppressed since 1989," Omer told AFP, 
referring to the year when President Omar al-Bashir seized power in an 
Islamist-backed coup.

"It is the regime's ideology that discriminates between men and women," she 
said, dressed in a black top and leggings.

Activists want Sudanese laws to be amended, particularly the security act, 
which gives security agents sweeping powers to make arbitrary detentions.

"It's not about the judge, the problem is with our laws themselves," said 
leading human rights activist Mudawi Ibrahim Adam.

"Imagine you can be detained up to 9 months without charges under the security 
act," he said.

He was detained for several months amid a crackdown on opposition activists in 
2016.

'Bad Laws'

Even before Hussein's sentence, rights activists had been urging Washington, 
which in October lifted decades-old sanctions against Khartoum, to push the 
Sudanese authorities to allow women more freedoms.

"We are trying to cooperate with the government to assure them that allowing 
more freedoms enhances the society," Steven Koutsis, top US envoy to Khartoum, 
told AFP at an event in March to honour courageous Sudanese women.

He said there was a will within the government to improve the human rights 
situation in Sudan.

"But that is tempered by fears (about) how to react to threats of instability," 
he said, adding that for Washington, human rights included women's rights.

Sudanese officials claim that many issues facing women are to do with the 
African country's centuries-old traditions, often tribal in nature.

"Had Noura gone to a court right at the beginning when she was being forced to 
marry, she would have been protected," insisted Abdulnasser Solom, an official 
from the government's Human Rights Commission.

But activists say Hussein's case is just the tip of a vast iceberg.

"There are tens and thousands of cases like Noura in our community that no one 
knows about," said leading women's activist Amal Habbani, who was detained for 
weeks for participating in opposition protests in January.

Sudanese laws do not consider women as human beings who can take their own 
decisions, she said.

"Bad laws create a bad environment in which women get oppressed," Habbani said.

(source: geo.tv)