Afghanistan
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1999
Data card
- Legal status
- Retentionist
- Executions recorded in 2026
- 0
- Executions recorded in 2025
- 7
- First news item in the archive
- JANUARY 1, 1999 · Afghan law does not prohibit the execution of an individual...
- News items in the archive
- 560
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Afghanistan is classified as Retentionist in the Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026. In 2026 the association recorded 0 executions in the country, against 7 the year before. The archive holds 560 news items on Afghanistan, from 1999 to today.
Latest news
- FEBRUARY 24, 2011AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
AFGHANISTAN: AID WORKER ARRESTED FOR BEING CHRISTIAN RELEASED
Afghan Red Cross worker Said Musa, 46, arrested for converting to Christianity...
- FEBRUARY 7, 2011AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
ONE-LEGGED AFGHAN RED CROSS WORKER SET TO BE HANGED AFTER CONVERTING TO CHRISTIANITY
Red Cross worker and Afghan physiotherapist Said Musa...
- JANUARY 19, 2011United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTY
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH IN ABU DHABI
an Abu Dhabi appeal court sentenced an Afghan national to death for smuggling
- JANUARY 6, 2011AustraliaDEATH PENALTY
AUSTRALIAN ESCAPES EXECUTION IN AFGHANISTAN
a former Australian soldier convicted of murder in Afghanistan had his January 2009 death sentence commuted to a 20-year jail term.
- JANUARY 1, 2011AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
The 2004 Afghan Constitution, in article 23 asserts the right to life...
The 2004 Afghan Constitution, in article 23 asserts the right to life...
- OCTOBER 14, 2010AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
AFGHAN WOMAN EXECUTED IN TALIBAN AREA FOR IN-LAW MURDER
an unidentified woman was shot by her brother-in-law in southern Afghanistan after local Taliban leaders approved the execution, dpa reported.
- AUGUST 29, 2010United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTY
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: DEATH SENTENCE FOR HEROIN SMUGGLER
in the United Arab Emirates, Afghan national MK, 22, was sentenced to death
- AUGUST 20, 2010AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
AFGHAN TEENAGER BEHEADED FOR "COLLABORATING" WITH GOVERNMENT
in Afghanistan's western Nimroz Province, the Taliban beheaded an unidentifed man...
- AUGUST 15, 2010AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
AFGHANISTAN: TALIBAN STONES COUPLE ACCUSED ON HAVING AFFAIR TO DEATH
a married man, 28, and his lover, 23, were stoned to death in front of a crowd by the Taliban in a Mullah Qali bazaar in a Taliban controlled village in Northern Afghanistan
- AUGUST 9, 2010AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
TALIBAN EXECUTE PREGNANT WOMAN IN AFGHANISTAN
the Taliban publicly flogged and then executed pregnant Afghan widow Bibi Sanubar...
- JUNE 8, 2010United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTY
UAE: FIVE FOREIGNERS SENTENCED TO DEATH ON DRUGS CHARGES
in the United Arab Emirates, an Abu Dhabi court sentenced five foreigners to death in two separate
- JUNE 8, 2010AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
AFGHANISTAN: TALEBAN HANG 7-YEAR-OLD BOY TO PUNISH FAMILY
Taliban militants in Afghanistan executed a seven-year-old boy on suspicion of spying
- MAY 31, 2010IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN: SEVEN AFGHAN IMMIGRANTS EXECUTED
Iranian authorities executed seven Afghan refugees, their relatives in western Herat province
- MAY 31, 2010AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
AFGHAN CHRISTIANS SENTENCED TO DEATH
VijayKumar Singh, from the India Bible Publishers and the Delhi Bible Fellowship, launched an appeal for Afghan Muslim converts to Christianity who were convicted on conversion charges and sentenced to death.
MAY 5, 2010AfghanistanDEATH PENALTYAFGHANISTAN: OVER 100 DEATH SENTENCES PENDING BEFORE PRESIDENT
more than a 100 death sentences are pending before Afghani President Karzai. Deputy
- APRIL 25, 2010IranDEATH PENALTY
ONLY SIX AFGHANS EXECUTED IN IRAN, ENVOY TELLS AFGHAN SPEAKER
Iran's deputy ambassador met with Afghani Senate Speaker Prof Hazrat Sebghatollah Mojaddedi and allegedly dismissed the rumour that 45 Afghans had been executed and 3,000 others were in jail in Iran.
- APRIL 10, 2010IranDEATH PENALTY
MPS CONCERNED OVER HANGING OF AFGHANS IN IRAN
Nur Akbari, a parliamentarian for Herat Province in Afghanistan, told parliament that he saw the bodies of 45 Afghans who were hanged in Iran and then sent to Afghanistan via Islam Qala port.
- APRIL 1, 2010AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
AFGHAN MINISTRY OFFICIAL GETS DEATH SENTENCE FOR MURDER
Judge Muhammad Ashraf of the provincial primary court in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Kunar sentenced government ministry official Marhaba Karimi and her husband Ghulam Ghaus to death for torturing and murdering her daughter-in-law in February 2010.
- MARCH 22, 2010IranDEATH PENALTY
AFGHANISTAN: OUTCRY IN KABUL OVER AFGHANS ON DEATH ROW IN IRAN
a delegation of Afghan lawmakers including Abdul Sattar Khwasi, first secretary of the lower house of parliament, returned from Iran with news that three thousand Afghanis have been sentenced to death there for various crimes
MARCH 22, 2010IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: AFGHANI MINOR ON DEATH ROW
it was reported that Jandarshah Nabizada, 16, from Afghanistan's northern Takhar Province
- JANUARY 27, 2010AustraliaDEATH PENALTY
AUSTRALIAN SOLDIER SENTENCED TO HANG IN AFGHANISTAN
a former Australian soldier was sentenced to death in Afghanistan for shooting dead an Afghan colleague after a violent argument.
- JANUARY 4, 2010IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN HANGS THREE CONVICTED OF MURDER
Iran hanged three men, two Iranian and an Afghan, convicted of murder and rape inside a prison in Varamin, south of Tehran, the official IRNA news agency reported.
- JANUARY 1, 2010AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
The 2004 Afghan Constitution, in article 23 asserts the right to life...
The 2004 Afghan Constitution, in article 23 asserts the right to life...
NOVEMBER 26, 2009IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: AFGHAN HANGED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
One man has been hanged in Amol in northern Iran, official Iranian news agency IRNA reported.
- OCTOBER 5, 2009IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN EXECUTION POSTPONEMENT MOVE WELCOMED
Amnesty International welcomed the postponement by Iranian authorities of the execution of Abbas Hosseini, an Afghan national, for a murder committed when he was 17 years old.
- OCTOBER 3, 2009IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN: IRAN MOVES TO EXECUTE MAN FOR CRIME COMMITTED WHEN HE WAS 17
Amnesty International warned of the imminent execution of Afghan national Abbas Hosseini in Mashhad, north-eastern Iran, for a murder committed in 2003 when he was 17.
SEPTEMBER 7, 2009AfghanistanDEATH PENALTYAFGHANISTAN: FREEDOM FOR PERVEZ AFTER KARZAI'S INTERVENTION
Sayed Pervez Kambaksh, the student sentenced to death in Afghanistan for trying to promote women's
- AUGUST 12, 2009IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN HANGS TWO FOR RAPE
two men convicted of rape were executed in a prison in the southern Iranian city of Shiraz, the Etemad newspaper reported.
- MAY 4, 2009AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
AFGHANISTAN: TALIBAN PUBLICLY EXECUTES THREE GOVT EMPLOYEES
Taliban fighters in Farah province...
- APRIL 13, 2009AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
AFGHAN TALIBAN EXECUTE ELOPING PAIR - OFFICIAL
Taliban militants in Afghanistan publicly executed a man and girl for eloping when she was already engaged to marry someone else