Amnesty warns against Egypt, Nigeria death sentences
Posters show Egypt's ousted president Hosni Mubarak in a noose on August 3, 2011 outside a hearing in his trial in the Cairo Police Academy (AFP Photo/Marwan Naamani)/ London (AFP) - Egypt and Nigeria accounted for an "alarming rise" in the number of death sentences handed out around the world in 2014, often on the back of security concerns, Amnesty International said Wednesday./ The London-based rights watchdog also criticised Pakistan for lifting a moratorium on the execution of civilians in the wake of the Peshawar school massacre by ...
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