Death penalty, 2019, 184 executions in Saudi Arabia and the first two shots to the nape of the 2020 Belarus

the ROME - human rights Activists of Somaliland, Was the self-proclaimed independent eastern Africa, which has no recognition of the international community, formed by the provinces of the northern part of Somalia, have confirmed the execution of six detainees in the prison of Mandheera, located in the capital city Hargeisa. The official of the Somaliland Human Rights Center, Guleid Ahmed Jama, said that the six were executed on 15 January morning. You learn from the "hands off Cain". According to the human rights activist, this execution is the first for a case relating To al-Shabaab in Somaliland by 2016.
Somaliland, officially the Republic of Somaliland, is considered internationally as an autonomous region of Somalia.

BELARUS

A blow to the back: issued the first 2 sentences of 2020. The regional court Mogilev on 10 January 2020 has sentenced to death two brothers, 19 and 21 years, who have been judged guilty of having committed murder in a particularly violent, has made known the Human Rights Centre Viasna. Belarus is the only european country that applies the death penalty. The method of execution is the following: the condemned is blindfolded, forced to kneel and wait approximately 2 minutes before the executioner the ends with a blow to the nape of the neck shot with a gun.

The two brothers executed. were executed to the two brothers, Ilya Kostin, and Stanislav Kostin, in a hearing out of the office to Cherikov. They were accused of killing their teacher, who was also close to them, by setting fire to his house," said the Centre. In April 2019, while were extinguished a fire in a house in Cherikov, the workers of the emergency services found the body of his owner, 47-year-old. Numerous knife wounds were found on the corpse. The alleged perpetrators of the murder were identified shortly after; they were two brothers with a criminal record, of 19 and 21 years old, who had quarreled with the woman the day before.

SAUDI ARABIA

184 executed in 2019. Saudi Arabia has put to death 184 in 2019, the highest number in a calendar year for six years, was announced by the human rights organization Reprieve, calling it a "tragic milestone" for the Kingdom. Of the executions announced by the press agency of saudi arabia last year, 88 were citizens of saudi arabia, and 90 foreigners, while six persons were of unknown national origin, as stated by Reprieve on 13 January 2020. The rights group has reported that 37 people were put to death by the saudi government in a single day on the 23rd April, including three prisoners who were minors when they committed their alleged crimes. "This is another tragic milestone for Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman, said the director of the rights group, Maya Foa - the rulers of the Kingdom clearly believe to have total impunity in violating international law when it seems to them." The declaration of Reprieve pointed out that the crown prince of saudi arabia had declared, in a television interview in 2018: "We have tried to reduce to a minimum the death penalty. It will take a year, maybe a little more, to put an end. We cannot succeed 100%, but will reduce considerably."

PAKISTAN

Cancelled the death sentence of former president Musharraf. on The 13th of January last, a court in pakistan has annulled the death sentence pronounced against the former president of the Country Pervez Musharraf. The High Court of Lahore ruled that the special tribunal set up to prosecute the former president was not legal. The defence college of Musharraf had filed a petition in the High Court following the death sentence issued last December by the court, according to which the former general of the army, was guilty of having imposed laws of emergency, in violation of the Constitution, during his government.

Nine years in power. Musharraf took power in 1999, when it ousted the elected government of former prime minister is Usually the Leader, with a military coup. Eight years later, he imposed the laws of emergency and placed several judges key to the arrest. These moves provoked condemnations and protests at the national level that led to his resignation in 2008. The lawyer of Musharraf, Azhar Sadique, said: "we will See how it reacts to the government." According to the legal, Musharraf was a political objective, falsely accused of treason by the government in 2014, after the former premier Sharif was returned to power.

MYANMAR

Sentenced to be hanged for murder. A court in the region of Ayeyarwady in Myanmar, the January 13, 2020 condemned to be hanged a former health care worker for having killed a teacher and have hidden the corpse after that in 2016, a love triangle had become violent. The former health worker Than Zaw, who worked in a rural health center in the village of Payagon in the township of Hinthada, has been declared guilty by the District Court of the same Hinthada, of conspiring with his girlfriend to kill her ex-boyfriend Ko Aye Naing, a teacher of 34 years of the primary school in the village of Mayan Lay, in the same township. The process lasted three years and nine months. On January 13, the court ruled that the two defendants should be applied to the maximum punishment provided by the law. The former healthcare assistant has been sentenced to be hanged for murder. His girlfriend, Hnin Cherry, was sentenced to seven years in prison with hard labor for having hidden evidence of the murder.

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