Four albino killers sentenced to death in Tanzania

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Four albino killers sentenced to death in Tanzania
Capital FM Kenya (press release) (subscription) (blog)
Tanzania, Mar 6 – A court in Tanzania has sentenced four people to death for the murder of an albino woman who was killed so her hacked-off limbs could be used in magic, officials said Friday. The sentencing comes after Tanzania' President Jakaya ...
Tanzania court sentence four to death over killing of young albinoCoastweek
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Daily Mail

06 Mar

Four sentenced to death in Tanzania for murdering albino woman

Daily Mail
Four sentenced to death in Tanzania for murdering albino woman
Daily Mail
Four people have been sentenced to death in Tanzania after brutally murdering a young albino woman in order to harvest her body parts as good luck charms. Zawadi Mangidu, 22, was killed in north-western town of Geita by a group that included her ...
In Tanzania: Albino killers sentenced to deathPulse Nigeria
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Reuters Africa

01 Jul

Four sentenced to death in Tanzania for killing albino teenager

Four sentenced to death in Tanzania for killing albino teenager
Reuters Africa
DAR ES SALAAM, July 1 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Four men, including a witchdoctor, were sentenced to death by Tanzania's High Court on Wednesday after being found guilty of abducting, killing and dismembering a 17-year-old albino boy.

 

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Pulse Nigeria

02 Jul

In Tanzania: Four sentenced to death for killing albino teenager

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In Tanzania: Four sentenced to death for killing albino teenager
Pulse Nigeria
The killers often hack their victims to death and sell their body party to witchdoctors who use them in spells to bring good luck and wealth. Witchdoctors pay as much as $75,000 for a full set of albino body parts, according to a Red Cross report ...
Four sentenced to death in Tanzania for killing albino teenagerReuters

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BBC

Tanzania albino killers face death

Four people, including the victim's husband, are sentenced to death in Tanzania after being found guilty of murdering an albino woman.

 

10 years ago

Daily News

02 Jul

Four albino killers sentenced to hang

Four albino killers sentenced to hang
Daily News
THE High Court Mbeya Division yesterday convicted and sentenced to death by hanging four people out of five who were charged with killing a person with albinism, one Henry Mwakajila (16,) in 2008 in Rungwe district, Mbeya region. The condemned ...

 

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TheCitizen

06 Mar

Four albino killers get death sentences

>The husband of a 32-year-old woman with albinism is among four men sentenced to death for her 2008 killing in Nyamaruru Village. Zawadi Magindu’s attackers, who included her husband Nassoro Charles, cut her limbs and right hand with an axe and a machete.

 

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IPPmedia

21 Jun

Lipumba clings to death penalty for albino killers.

IPPmedia
Lipumba clings to death penalty for albino killers.
IPPmedia
The government has been pressured to sign the death sentence penalty for all convicts involved in killing people with albinism (PWA) in the country. The Civic United Front (CUF) Chairman Prof. Ibrahim Lipumba was responding to the CEOrt 2015 presidential ...

 

10 years ago

Mirror.Co.Uk

18 Feb

Albino baby hacked to death in Tanzania's latest witchcraft related death

Mirror.co.uk
Albino baby hacked to death in Tanzania's latest witchcraft related death
Mirror.co.uk
An albino baby found hacked to death in a forest in Tanzania has become the latest victim of brutal murders connected to witchcraft. The United Nations, who condemned the attack, have warned there may be an increased threat to Albinos in the country in the ...
Dismembered body of albino child found in Tanzania, days after being snatched ...International Business Times UK
Abducted Tanzanian Albino...

 

9 years ago

BBC

06 Jan

Nigerian cleric sentenced to death

An Islamic court sentences a Nigerian cleric to death after finding him guilty of blasphemy in the northern city of Kano.

 

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