May 20
SUDAN:
Sudan's ex-Premier faces death penalty
Sudan's ex-Prime minister Alsadig Almahdi, is facing charges that could lead to
a death penalty over alleged treason, the defense committee said.The head of
the defense Kamal El Jizouli told the APA on Monday that the prosecution has
decided to add 2 criminal charges to the already 4 charges against Almahdi last
week.
Eljizouli who accompanied El Mahdi to Kober prison, warned that the 2 charges
could lead to a death penalty.
"Article 50 of the Criminal Code, referring to undermining the constitutional
order, with a punishment that includes the death penalty, and article 63, which
refers to the call for violently opposing public authority" the lawyer
explained.
Meanwhile Almahdi's supporters have suspended the national dialogue with the
ruling national congress Party (NCP), declaring that they will go to the
streets to demonstrate until they bring down the government.
(source: Star Africa)
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES:
Trial of group linked to Al Qaida adjourned; 9-member cell, accused of planning
attacks in the UAE, was arrested last year
The trial of a cell linked to Al Qaida that was planning attacks on the UAE has
been adjourned to May 26, for the prosecution to present its witnesses, Dr
Abdul Wahab Abdul, Chief Justice of the Federal Supreme Court, told Gulf News
on Monday.
He added that the court has hired 6 lawyers to defend the men. There are 9
suspects in total, 8 of whom are being tried and 1 remains at large.
The defendants are charged with committing terrorist acts against the UAE's
security, legal sources told Gulf News.
Sources said if convicted, the defendants will face the death penalty or life
imprisonment. They said they are also being tried under the UAE's cyber crime
law. This stipulates a jail term of 5 years for anyone creating or running an
electronic site to publish information online or through any information
technology means to promote any terrorist groups or any unlicensed societies.
This includes facilitating contact with their leaders or soliciting new
members, financing their activities, providing funds or promoting the making of
explosives or any devices used in terrorist acts.
The cell, arrested in April last year, was reportedly planning action to target
the country's security and the safety of its citizens and residents, and was
carrying out recruitment and promoting the actions of Al Qaida, police said.
Police added the cell was also supplying Al Qaida with money and providing
logistical support and seeking to expand its activities to other countries in
the region.
In December last year, the UAE said it had arrested a cell comprising Emirati
and Saudi Arabian members of a "deviant group" that was planning to carry out
militant attacks in both countries and other states. Some members of the group
are believed to have links to Al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, which uses
Yemen as a base for international operations.
(source: Gulf News)
IRAN----executions
16 prisoners hanged during 2 days
16 prisoners have been hanged in Kerman, Zahedan and Qazvin on May 17th and
18th.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), 2
prisoners were hanged on charge of drug trafficking in Zahedan Prison on
Saturday May 17.
On May 18, 8 prisoners were transferred to solitary confinements in Rajai Shahr
Prison in Karaj to be hanged as well.
Mohsen Marzban and Jalal Azarmehr are 2 of the transferred ones.
The prisoners are identified as: Zahir Mirbaluch and Naser Barahui.
According to a report of Mehr News Agency, 10 prisoners have been hanged in
Kerman on the same charge at the same day.
Mehr News Agency also reported the execution 4 other prisoners in Qazvin
prison. 3 of the men were charged with drug trafficking and the other was
hanged on charge of murder.
(source: Human Rights Activists News Agency)
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At Least 5 Prisoners Hanged in Iran
5 of the 8 prisoners who were scheduled to be executed in the Rajaishahr prison
of Karaj (west of Tehran) were hanged this morning. 1 of the prisoners was
pardoned and execution of 2 other prisoners was postponed. At least 73
prisoners have been executed in different Iranian prisons in May 2014.
5 prisoners, charged with murder, were hanged in the Rajaishahr prison of Karaj
early Monday morning May 19, according to reliable sources Iran Human Rights
(IHR) has been in contact with.
2 of the prisoners are identified as "Hamid Abdi" and "Seyed Mohammad
Hosseini", both from ward 2 of Rajaishahr.
Execution of 2 other prisoners was postponed, while 1 prisoner was pardoned by
the family of the offended.
So far in May 2014 at least 73 prisoners have been executed in Iran. 32 of the
executions have been announced by the official Iranian sources, and at least 41
executions have been confirmed by the human rights groups.
(source: Iran Human Rights)
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Executions in Iran under Rouhani top 600
Some 200 Kurds in Iran have been executed since President Rouhani came to power
almost a year ago.
According to reports since August 2013 when Rouhani came to power, the number
of executions has increased and approximately 600 people ifrom different
ethnicities.
There are no accurate statistics regarding the number of executions in Iran
because some of them are not carried out publicly.
On October 8, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran and the Iran
Human Rights Documentation Center jointly called for an immediate moratorium on
executions in Iran given the alarming rise in the use of the death penalty.
(source: Firat News)
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