The Saudi Human Rights Commission has announced that the death sentences of Ali al-Nimr, Dawood al-Marhoon and Abdullah al-Zaher, sentenced as juvenies, have been referred for review, following a recent royal decree mandating that the maximum punishment for childhood crimes should be ten years imprisonment.
Egypt’s highest court has recognised that Ahmed Saddouma, sentenced to death in a mass trial in 2018, was a child at the time of his alleged offences. His sentence has accordingly been commuted to 15 years imprisonment.
The Court of Appeal has ruled that the Home Office’s policy on deciding the age of young people seeking asylum is unlawful and must be rewritten, as it fails to ensure that children are not mistakenly treated as adults.
In President Abdelfattah el-Sisi’s first five years in power, his regime handed preliminary death sentences to more than 2,400 people, a Reprieve report reveals.
Saudi Arabia’s official press agency has announced a mass execution of 37 people. Most, if not all, were convicted in the Specialised Criminal Court (SCC), the Kingdom’s secretive and widely condemned anti-terrorism tribunal.