Aleksandr Timofeyev, a shepherd, was sentenced to death in the Russian Federation after being convicted of rape and murder of two women and of the rape of seven others. The exact date and place of his trial and sentence are not known.
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The newspaper Bakinsky rabochy (Baku Worker) reported on 14 April 1992 that Salman Farmanov, a 34-year-old economist and former head of the planning deparment in Baku, was sentenced to death by Baku City Court. The exact date of the trial is not known. Salman Farmanov was convicted of robbery,...
Dr Nour al-Din al-Atassi, a prisoner of conscience aged 63, has been held without charge or trial for almost 22 years. He is a former president of Syria, Secretary General of the Syrian Ba’th Party and Prime Minister. He was arrested in November 1970 after the coup which brought President Hafez...