Egypt’s Qena Criminal Court, headed by Counselor Othman Mohamedin, on 21 July 2020 sentenced to death three defendants over the abduction, rape and attempted murder of a young 17-year old woman.

The HCMC People’s Court on 22 July 2020 sentenced two men to death for trafficking over 44 kg of ecstasy pills from Cambodia in 2018.

A Delta State High Court sitting in Asaba has sentenced one Amechi Stanley Chidokwe to death by hanging for armed robbery, The Sun reported on 22 July 2020.

Sajjad Sadeghi, a radio presenter, was lashed 74 times on June 27, 2020 for disclosing information on “receiving a bribe in one of the oil transactions”.

California’s inaction on COVID-19 amounts to a death sentence for prisoners, San Francisco Examiner denounced on July 19, 2020.

Kurdistan Human Rights Network has been informed that the death sentences of two prisoners, Asad Keshavarz and Amin Safarkesh, were carried out in Orumiyeh Central Prison on 20 July 2020.

Former Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir has been summoned to appear before a court over charges of an alleged coup d‘état he staged over 30 years ago.

Kuwait’s top court on 20 July 2020 upheld a lower court’s ruling condemning a Kuwaiti man to death for killing his pregnant Saudi wife by strangulating her three years ago, Saudi Arabia’s Okaz newspaper reported.

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According to state media, Mahmoud Mousavi-Majd’s death sentence was carried out on 18 July 2020.

Bahrain has categorically rejected criticism of recent death sentences issued against two people convicted of murdering a policeman more than six years ago, Gulf News reported on 19 July 2020.

A NGO against the mandatory death penalty on 17 July 2020 said not all the six sentenced to hang for the murder of a deputy public prosecutor in 2015 deserve to be sent to the gallows.