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Oct
10
2023
By The African Mirror
Nigerian police officer sentenced to death for shooting lawyer dead

Nigerian police officer sentenced to death for shooting lawyer dead

NEWS
A Nigerian court sentenced to death a police officer convicted of shooting dead a pregnant female lawyer on Christmas Day in 2022, likely igniting debate on the place of the death penalty in Africa's most populous country. Nigeria has at least 3,000 people on death row, according to Amnesty International, but executions are rare, which has led to calls by some rights groups to abolish the death sentence. The Lagos State High Court had in January put on murder trial police officer Drambi Vandi who was accused of shooting Bolanle Raheem, who was pregnant with twins, at close range. Vandi…
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May
09
2023
By The African Mirror
Iran hangs two men for blasphemy

Iran hangs two men for blasphemy

WORLD
IRAN has executed two people who had been sentenced to death for blasphemy, the judiciary's news website Mizan reported, drawing an angry reaction from the human rights group Amnesty International. Yousef Mehrdad and Sadrollah Fazeli Zare were executed for crimes including blasphemy, insulting the religion of Islam, the prophet and other sanctities, Mizan reported. The website reported that the two were running dozens of online anti-religion platforms dedicated to the hatred of Islam, the promotion of atheism and insults to sanctity. Amnesty International condemned the executions on its Twitter page for Iran. "Today's execution of Yousef Mehrdad and Sadrollah Fazeli…
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Jul
16
2022
By The African Mirror
Five ex-Gambian intelligence officials guilty of murder

Five ex-Gambian intelligence officials guilty of murder

NEWS
GAMBIA'S former spy chief and four other ex-intelligence officials have been sentenced to death for the 2016 murder of an opponent of ex-president Yahya Jammeh, a rare instance of criminal accountability for Jammeh-era crimes The country has observed a moratorium on the death penalty since 2018, so the sentences handed down by Gambia's high court will be converted to life imprisonment. The court issued the sentences late on Wednesday against Yankuba Badjie, the former director-general of the National Intelligence Agency and four other senior NIA officials for the murder of Solo Sandeng. Two other defendants were acquitted. The defendants all…
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Apr
19
2022
By The African Mirror
Six sentenced to death for lynching Sri Lankan factory manager in Pakistan

Six sentenced to death for lynching Sri Lankan factory manager in Pakistan

WORLD
MUBASHER BUKHARI A court sentenced six men to death in a mass trial for the mob lynching of a clothes factory's Sri Lankan manager in eastern Pakistan last year, the case's public prosecutor said. Scores of enraged workers in the city of Sialkot tortured and burned the man in December over accusations of blasphemy which a police official at the time linked to the removal of a poster with Islamic holy verses. Mobile phone footage shows him being chased onto a roof then beaten with sticks, dragged onto the streets, stripped and set alight. One man who seeks to help…
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