Your Death Sentence Is Important to Us. Please Hold.
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.
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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.
Waging War Against God, Armed With Stones
Since March, Iran has hanged at least 59 people on political charges, teenagers among them, five of them in public. Their crimes, according to the courts: broken windows, thrown stones, torched motorcycles, all filed under "waging war against God". A UN mission now speaks of crimes against humanity.
