A third consequence of the verdicts concerns the empowerment of an anti reform faction within the MOI.

(vi) The trying of civilians and the imposition of the death penalty by the Military Court

(d) To establish a moratorium on executions with a view to abolishing the death penalty

The Egyptian government, too, is unhappy that the world is not too pleased with its mass death sentences.

The Civic political party described the re sentencing of the activists as legal terrorism in a statement (via Hong Kong Free Press)

After all, at Nuremberg, the top rung of the Third Reich was tried and convicted within months.

In Beijing millions of inhabitants were ordered to witness some 30,000 sentencing and execution rallies during the early 1950 s.

(i) The continuing persecution and arbitrary sentencing to prison of human rights defenders, political opponents, religious dissenters and reformists

Concerned about the lack of procedural and substantive safeguards in the administration of justice in Iraq, including in the application of the death penalty,

No matter how great the outcry against the death sentences imposed on adulterous women, Sharia law cannot be wished away here.

(c) Stoning as a method of execution, and the continued issuing of sentences of execution by stoning

Blogger Yanvarlamov publishes private (and quite compromising) pictures of Alexey Kuznetsov, Saint Petersburg judge famous for sentencing opposition activists.

He's serving a life sentence, but most such sentences in Finland are commuted to 10 or 15 years.

My support for capital punishment would weaken greatly if the rate of killing innocent people were as large as that claimed by many.

Despite this, there is concern that executions may resume due to public opinion, as has already occurred in Taiwan and India.

Human rights advocate Pavel Chikov called Polyudova a political prisoner and said her verdict was part of a trend of harsher sentences against dissenters in Russia that began with Ildar Dadin, who was recently sentenced to three years behind bars for unsanctioned protests.

Human rights organizations have denounced torture inside prisons and the use of military courts and prisons to judge and detain civilians.

The Angkor Post publishes an article that suggests the implementation of non custodial sentences as a practical reform measure to decongest the prisons

This year, for the first time, the government supplied the details of the pardons granted 11 convictions for public health offences, one for robbery and another for ongoing fraud.

The Center's experts credit the proliferation of anti extremist sentences to the vague nature of the legal norms and note that the Russian notion of extremism has no clear equivalent in international law.

I believe the UN should push for an immediate de facto suspension, without waiting for the debates to begin on legal reforms in the respective countries.

Welcoming the decisions taken by an increasing number of States to apply a moratorium on executions, followed in many cases by the abolition of the death penalty,

The amendment that would lead to freeing the imprisoned former Prime Minister was revoked during second reading of the proposal for mitigation of sentences for economic offences.

9. Requests the Secretary General to submit to the General Assembly at its fifty sixth session a report on the likely long term financial obligations of the United Nations with regard to the enforcement of sentences

The Interior Ministry says the growing numbers of cases and convictions are caused by a spike in online activity, both on the part of the politically active citizens, and on the part of law enforcement.

The judge in the case, Abolghassem Salavati, has a reputation for tough sentences, to the point that the European Union placed him on a blacklist in 2011 for human rights abuses.

(b) The continued suspension of the moratorium on the carrying out of the death penalty, in particular the death sentences passed on 7 January 2003 by the Military Order Court which had tried the persons accused of assassinating the former President of the Republic

Indeed, given rising tension with Israel and possible indictments of its operatives by the international tribunal investigating the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafic al Hariri, Hezbollah appears to be hemmed in on all sides.

But as mandatory sentencing rules have landed more and more Americans behind bars, incidents that bear a disquieting resemblance to the degenerate cruelties photographed in Iraq have come increasingly to light.

(e) At the discrimination against persons belonging to religious minorities, in particular the unabated pattern of persecution of the Baha'is, including the continuing detention and the sentencing to death of some of them

Some of the worst abuses have surfaced in Texas, America's death penalty capital and home to more prisoners than Germany, France, Belgium, and the Netherlands combined.

Key issues discussed included the abolition of the death penalty, along with the related issues of adherence to human rights treaties, the procurement of a moratorium on death penalty convictions, and the establishment of penal code reforms.

Between 2006 and 2012, the number of women in prison in Thailand increased almost 50 percent, with the vast majority of sentences stemming from using, producing or dealing drugs mostly meth.

Béla Király, released from a sentence of life in prison (one of the four death sentences he received from the communists having been commuted) was offered the job of commander of the Hungarian National Guard and the defense of Budapest.

But attention to sensational cases of amputation and death by stoning, while justified, obscures the reality that the bulk of Sharia cases involve family matters and ordinary commercial law.