by admin_HRWF | Oct 13, 2020 | Women's Rights & Gender Equality
Move comes after nationwide demonstrations sparked by series of sexual assaults. By Hannah Ellis-Petersen The Guardian (12.10.2020) – https://bit.ly/2H0T84M – Bangladesh will introduce the death penalty for rape cases, after several...
by admin_HRWF | Sep 10, 2020 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
Asif Pervaiz, 37, who has been in custody since 2013, given death penalty for sending ‘blasphemous’ text messages. By Asad Hashim Al Jazeera (08.09.2020) – https://bit.ly/2Fi6rNf – A court in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore has...
by admin_HRWF | Aug 12, 2020 | Uncategorized
HRWF (13.08.2020) – Human Rights Without Frontiers condemns the death sentence by hanging issued by a Nigerian Sharia court in Kano against a 22-year-old singer for allegedly insulting the Prophet in a song that he wrote and circulated on WhatsApp. ...
by admin_HRWF | May 1, 2020 | Uncategorized
– The Guardian (27.04.2020) – https://bit.ly/3bU4hir – The Kingdom has one of the world’s highest rates of execution and rights groups have repeatedly raised concerns about the fairness of trials. Saudi Arabia has ended the death penalty for crimes...
by admin_HRWF | Oct 15, 2019 | LGBTQI People and Human Rights
Amid attacks, officials threaten death penalty for LGBT people. HRW (15.10.2019) – https://bit.ly/31ecEz1 – Ugandan authorities should thoroughly investigate the fatal attack on October 4, 2019 on an activist for the rights of lesbian, gay,...