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AFGHANISTAN: TALIBAN PUBLICLY FLOGS TWO IN KABUL AND GHAZNI AS CORPORAL PUNISHMENT PERSISTS 15 July 2025 The Taliban flogged two individuals, including a woman, in Kabul and Ghazni provinces earlier this week, as the group continues carrying out corporal punishment despite widespread global condemnation, KabulNow reported on July 11, 2025. Read everything

BANGLADESH: WIFE, TWO OTHERS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING MAN IN CTG

A Chattogram court on July 14, 2025 sentenced a woman and two others to death for killing her husband over an extramarital relationship in 2021.

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NIGERIA: FOUR SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING DRIVER

A Bayelsa State High Court sitting in Yenagoa has sentenced four men to death for the murder of a taxi driver, Mr Olarenwaju Ajayi, sometime in 2001.

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IRAN - Fereydoun Naziri and Hadi Nasri executed in Qom on June 24

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IRAN - Mohammad Tayeb Abdollahi and Naser Kazemzadeh executed in Shiraz on July 9

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IRAN - 3 men executed in Zanjan on July 8

Alireza Bagheri, Mehran Habibi and Esmail Valipour

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IRAN - Ilia Khalifehzadeh executed in public on July 12

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IRAN - Abdolhossein Jaberi and Saeed Mehrabi executed in Karaj Central on July 9

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IRAN - Lennart Monterlos, a Franco-German Citizen, arrested in Iran

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IRAN - Javad Yarbigi executed in Arak on July 7

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IRAN - Six Months On, No Word From Detained British Couple in Iran

Craig and Lindsay Foreman

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IRAN - 2 unidentified men executed in Qom on July 10

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IRAN - Ahmadali Mahdinejad executed in Navahand on July 9

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URGENT APPEAL BY HANDS OFF CAIN TO AVOID THE ERASING EVIDENCE OF 1980S EXECUTIONS BY DESTROYING BEHESHT-E-ZAHRA SECTION 41 IN IRAN

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