Belgium
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1998
Data card
- Legal status
- Abolitionist
- Executions recorded in 2026
- 0
- Executions recorded in 2025
- 0
- First news item in the archive
- DECEMBER 10, 1998 · On December 10, 1998, Belgium ratified Protocol No
- News items in the archive
- 103
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Belgium is classified as Abolitionist in the Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026. In 2026 the association recorded 0 executions in the country, against 0 the year before. The archive holds 103 news items on Belgium, from 1998 to today.
Latest news
MAY 26, 2023BelgiumDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Belgian Government Releases Iranian Diplomat-Terrorist Assadollah Assadi
Controversial Prisoner Swap
- MARCH 3, 2023BelgiumDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Belgium’s Top Court Issues Decree To Swap Iranian Diplomat
Assadi and Vandecasteele
JANUARY 10, 2023BelgiumDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Belgian Olivier Vandecasteele Sentenced to 40 Years
Iranian forcing to get a prisoner exchange
- JULY 22, 2022BelgiumDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Belgium. Brussels Court suspended the transfer of Assadollah Assadi
- JULY 21, 2022BelgiumDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Belgium. Belgium Ratifies Much-Criticized Prisoner Swap Treaty With Iran
JULY 12, 2022BelgiumDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Belgium. Rights Groups Call on Belgium Not To Swap Prisoners With Iran
JULY 9, 2022BelgiumDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Belgium. What Lessons Can Belgium Learn That France Never Did?
More on the Assadi case
- JULY 8, 2022BelgiumDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Belgium. More against the release of Assadi
- JULY 7, 2022BelgiumDEATH PENALTY
RAN - Belgium. Global firestorm brewing over Belgium’s disgraceful deal with Iran’s regime
- JULY 6, 2022BelgiumDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Belgium. Belgium Provisionally Clears Iran Prisoner-Swap Treaty
- JULY 2, 2022BelgiumDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Belgium. A law in Belgium could lead to the release of Assadi, the Iranian diplomat in prison for planning a terror attack
- JULY 2, 2022BelgiumDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Belgium. Iran Reportedly Holds Two Belgians As Brussels Plans Prisoner Swap
- MAY 10, 2022BelgiumDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Belgian Court of Appeals’ Sentence on Bomb Plot at Iranian Resistance Rally in Paris
- FEBRUARY 14, 2020BelgiumDEATH PENALTY
BELGIUM: LAST REFERENCE TO DEATH PENALTY REMOVED FROM LAW
The Chamber of Representatives on 13 February 2020 unanimously approved the bill that proposed to remove the last reference to the death penalty in Belgian legislation.
- JANUARY 1, 2020BelgiumDEATH PENALTY
Belgium abolished the death penalty for all crimes in 1996.
Belgium abolished the death penalty for all crimes in 1996.
- JANUARY 1, 2019BelgiumDEATH PENALTY
Belgium abolished the death penalty for all crimes in 1996.
Belgium abolished the death penalty for all crimes in 1996.
- JANUARY 1, 2018BelgiumDEATH PENALTY
Belgium abolished the death penalty for all crimes in 1996.
Belgium abolished the death penalty for all crimes in 1996.
- JANUARY 1, 2017BelgiumDEATH PENALTY
Belgium abolished the death penalty for all crimes in 1996.
Belgium abolished the death penalty for all crimes in 1996.
- JANUARY 1, 2016BelgiumDEATH PENALTY
Belgium abolished the death penalty for all crimes in 1996.
Belgium abolished the death penalty for all crimes in 1996.
- JANUARY 1, 2015BelgiumDEATH PENALTY
Belgium abolished the death penalty for all crimes in 1996.
Belgium abolished the death penalty for all crimes in 1996.
- JANUARY 1, 2014BelgiumDEATH PENALTY
Belgium abolished the death penalty for all crimes in 1996.
Belgium abolished the death penalty for all crimes in 1996.
- OCTOBER 3, 2013BelgiumDEATH PENALTY
Nizar Trabelsi, a Tunisian man jailed in Belgium in 2003 for planning to attack a Nato air base, was
Nizar Trabelsi, a Tunisian man jailed in Belgium in 2003 for planning to attack a Nato air base, was
- JANUARY 1, 2013BelgiumDEATH PENALTY
Belgium abolished the death penalty for all crimes in 1996.
Belgium abolished the death penalty for all crimes in 1996.
- JANUARY 1, 2012BelgiumDEATH PENALTY
Belgium abolished the death penalty for all crimes in 1996.
Belgium abolished the death penalty for all crimes in 1996.
- JANUARY 1, 2011BelgiumDEATH PENALTY
Belgium abolished the death penalty for all crimes in 1996.
Belgium abolished the death penalty for all crimes in 1996.
- JANUARY 1, 2010BelgiumDEATH PENALTY
Belgium abolished the death penalty for all crimes in 1996.
Belgium abolished the death penalty for all crimes in 1996.
- JANUARY 1, 2009BelgiumDEATH PENALTY
Belgium abolished the death penalty for all crimes in 1996.
Belgium abolished the death penalty for all crimes in 1996.
- JANUARY 1, 2008BelgiumDEATH PENALTY
Belgium abolished the death penalty for all crimes in 1996.
Belgium abolished the death penalty for all crimes in 1996.
- DECEMBER 18, 2007BelgiumDEATH PENALTY
Belgium voted in favour of the Resolution on a Moratorium...
Belgium voted in favour of the Resolution on a Moratorium...
- JANUARY 1, 2007BelgiumDEATH PENALTY
Belgium abolished the death penalty for all crimes in 1996.
Belgium abolished the death penalty for all crimes in 1996.