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Mohammad el Shami, a UN human rights worker and father of three held by the Houthis since 6 June 2024, died in custody without learning his father had died, his family said. They were told on 30 October. The UN says the death raises concerns about possible ill-treatment.
Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth wants the public to watch an execution by firing squad. US courts have rejected broadcasts of executions and UN bodies consider public executions a human rights violation. Hegseth faces separate scrutiny over military conduct.
Christa Pike survives Tennessee lethal injection eight weeks after the state's last botched execution. She left the prison alive in an ambulance. Governor Bill Lee has ordered a third-party review. The state had given no cause for the failure by 1 October.
Protest detainees tried and killed within weeks of arrest; Hengaw says executions constitute political retaliation; hundreds more face death sentences
Iranian human rights lawyer and Sakharov Prize laureate Nasrin Sotoudeh was arrested without warrant on 1 April as rights groups warn Iran is using wartime to intensify domestic repression.
