Yahaya Sharif-Aminu was sentenced to hang over a song he shared on WhatsApp. Six and a half years on, Nigeria's Supreme Court still has not managed to fit his appeal into its schedule.
Sivarasa Anojan, a Tamil migrant worker from Sri Lanka, now faces the death penalty after a Saudi appeals court replaced his five-year prison term for blasphemy tied to a Facebook comment. A Sri Lankan MP is challenging the government's handling of the appeal.
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.
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