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Some prisoners are executed in public. For example, in 2013 Egyptian national also known as Hawally monster, was hanged in public. [1] [2] Some other people, including a Royal family member were also executed in public. [3] In 2023, the person behind the 2015 Kuwait mosque attack was executed by hanging. He was hanged alongside a group of other ...
Kuwait said Thursday it executed five prisoners, including an inmate convicted over the bombing of a Shiite mosque in 2015 that killed 27 people and was claimed by the Islamic State group. The ...
Capital punishment is retained in law by 55 UN member states or observer states, with 140 having abolished it in law or in practice.The most recent legal executions performed by nations and other entities with criminal law jurisdiction over the people present within its boundaries are listed below.
Amnesty International's Interim Deputy Director for the Middle East and North Africa, Rawya Rageh, criticized Kuwait's execution of five individuals, including one for a drug-related offense, as a return to executions with "vigour," urging the establishment of a moratorium on executions towards abolishing the death penalty.
China is the world's most active user of the death penalty; according to Amnesty International, China executes more people than the rest of the world combined, each year; [22] but the death penalty for all crimes do not apply to the two special administrative regions, Hong Kong and Macau.
KUWAIT (Reuters) -Foreign dignitaries arrived in the Gulf state of Kuwait to offer condolences for the death of emir Sheikh Nawaf al-Ahmad al-Sabah, who was buried earlier on Sunday. Sheikh Meshal ...
Legal formalities aside, popular sentiment in favor of the death penalty occasionally rises in Israel in response to particularly heinous crimes. After the Sbarro suicide bombing, right-wing newspapers called for the perpetrators to be executed but Ahlmam Tamimi was only sentenced to prison. [1]
The death of Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah, the leader of Kuwait who earned a reputation as a seasoned diplomat and a rare ruler who could cross the region’s political and sectarian divides ...