13 October 2005 :
on the eve of the 'World Day Against the Death Penalty’, Amnesty International (AI) undertook a silent march from Azad Maidan to Hutathma Chowk, in South Mumbai, India, demanding the abolition of death penalty for all crimes from the statutes of all the countries, including India.
Banjul High Court, presided over by Justice Ebrima Jaiteh, on May 12, 2025 sentenced Augustine Bangura, a Sierra Leonean national, to death having found him guilty of killing a British national, Shakina Chinedu.
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As a general amnesty law takes effect in Iraq, the country’s prisons are facing a crisis of overcrowding, housing more than double their intended capacity, the country’s justice minister said in an interview on May 3, 2025.
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