7 March 2019: Tunisia’s Criminal Court on terrorism cases in the capital’s Court of Appeal has sentenced 31 people to death over the 2014 terrorist attack on the house of former Interior Minister Lotfi Ben Jeddou. Among the 31 suspects ...
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5 March 2019: according to a monthly survey conducted by the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, 56 defendants were handed death sentences in January of this year, in addition to 48 others who received preliminary death sentences — which are ...
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3 March 2019: the Cairo Criminal Court sentenced one man to death and four others to life imprisonment in the case known as “the October Terrorist cell” case. The court sentenced Mohammed Ibrahim Fathi to death and four others to ...
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25 February 2019: a military tribunal in Mogadishu has sentenced a government soldier to death for killing a civilian in Mahad district in Middle Shabelle region, south of Somalia. Abdulkadir Mohamud Ali was found guilty by the court for the murder ...
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Mogadishu, 25 February 2019: the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) marked another milestone in its support to Somalia with the inauguration of the Mogadishu Prison and Court Complex (MPCC), a key part of the Federal Government’s response ...
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21 febraury 2019: former Egyptian Vice-President Mohamed ElBaradei has decried Egypt’s frequent resort to capital punishment and has called for the abolition of the practice. He made the assertion a day after the Egyptian authorities executed nine people for alleged ...
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A RESEARCH ON POSITIVE TRADITIONAL APPROACHES TO AVOID THE DEATH PENALTY IN SOMALIA TABLE OF CONTENTS 1.0 INTRODUCTION……………………………………………………………………….. 3 2.0 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY………………………………………………………. 4 3.0 SOMALI JUSTICE SYSTEMS………………………………………………………… 4 3.1 The state of the judiciary………………………………………………………. 4 4.1 Death Penalty and the Somali ...
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20 February 2019: Egyptian authorities executed nine young men on morning, despite calls by rights groups to halt the executions over due process violations, a source close to their families told Middle East Eye. The nine men were convicted of ...
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17 February 2019: Somalia’s Puntland State military court sentenced four young men to death while three others were handed fines after they were convicted of murder, Garowe Online reports. Puntland prosecuting attorney at the military court, Mohamed Yusuf said the ...
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13 February 2019: Egypt executed three people who were sentenced to death for the killing of a senior police officer during a raid in Cairo in 2013. The case is related to the killing of Gen. Nabil Farag in September ...
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