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Six and a half years after sharing a song on WhatsApp, a young Nigerian musician is still waiting for his country's Supreme Court to find a slot on its calendar.
Death penalty
Sentences and executions.
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Lahore court finally asks whether Facebook posts count as proof in lecturer’s blasphemy appeal
A Pakistani court has asked prosecutors to justify the admissibility and authenticity of the digital evidence used to convict Junaid Hafeez, a former lecturer on death row for blasphemy since 2019, whose appeal has been pending since 2020.
Sri Lankan migrant worker sentenced to death on appeal in Saudi blasphemy case
A Saudi appeals court has sentenced Sri Lankan Tamil worker Sivarasa Anojan to death for blasphemy over a Facebook comment, replacing an earlier five-year prison term. A Sri Lankan MP is now questioning how the government handled his appeal.
A Decade in Jail Wasn’t Enough? Saudi Prosecutors Reportedly Seek Death for Preacher al-Tarifi
Saudi rights group ALQST says prosecutors have asked for the execution of hadith scholar Abdul Aziz al-Tarifi, who has been behind bars since 2016 and is now kept in solitary confinement.
