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SAUDI ARABIA BEHEADS MAN CONVICTED OF MURDER

09 June 2008 :

Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry said it beheaded a man convicted of murdering a fellow citizen after a dispute. A ministry statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency says Khalid Assouni was executed in Jiddah for stabbing Abdou al-Duweiri to death. The statement did not explain the nature of the dispute.
 
(Sources: International Herald Tribune, 08/06/2008)

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Bangladesh's top court on May 27, 2025 overturned a conviction against a key leader of the country's main Islamist party, who had been on death row since being sentenced under the regime ousted last year.

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Hands off Cain is an international league of citizens and parliamentarians for the abolition of the death penalty in the world. It is a non-profit, non-violent, transnational and trans-national Partito Radicale founded in Brussels in 1993 and recognized in 2005 by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a development co-operation NGO.