Congo - Brazzaville
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1999
Data card
- Legal status
- Abolitionist de facto
- Executions recorded in 2026
- 0
- Executions recorded in 2025
- 0
- First news item in the archive
- JANUARY 1, 1999 · Murder, treason, spying and offenses against the State...
- News items in the archive
- 42
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Congo - Brazzaville is classified as Abolitionist de facto 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 42 news items on Congo - Brazzaville, from 1999 to today.
Latest news
SEPTEMBER 13, 2024Congo - BrazzavilleDEATH PENALTYUSA - 3 Americans and 34 Others Sentenced to Death in Congo
On Coup Charges
- JANUARY 1, 2020Congo - BrazzavilleDEATH PENALTY
Murder, treason, spying and offences against the State are capital crimes.
Murder, treason, spying and offences against the State are capital crimes.
- JANUARY 1, 2019Congo - BrazzavilleDEATH PENALTY
Murder, treason, spying and offences against the State are capital crimes.
Murder, treason, spying and offences against the State are capital crimes.
- JANUARY 1, 2018Congo - BrazzavilleDEATH PENALTY
Murder, treason, spying and offences against the State are capital crimes.
Murder, treason, spying and offences against the State are capital crimes.
- JANUARY 1, 2017Congo - BrazzavilleDEATH PENALTY
Murder, treason, spying and offences against the State are capital crimes.
Murder, treason, spying and offences against the State are capital crimes.
- JANUARY 1, 2016Congo - BrazzavilleDEATH PENALTY
Murder, treason, spying and offences against the State are capital crimes.
Murder, treason, spying and offences against the State are capital crimes.
- JANUARY 1, 2015Congo - BrazzavilleDEATH PENALTY
Murder, treason, spying and offences against the State are capital crimes.
Murder, treason, spying and offences against the State are capital crimes.
- DECEMBER 19, 2014Congo - BrazzavilleDEATH PENALTY
Michael Pambou, first president of the Court of Appeal of Pointe-Noire sentenced to death Nkaya Miyalou
Michael Pambou, first president of the Court of Appeal of Pointe-Noire sentenced to death Nkaya Miyalou
- JULY 1, 2014Congo - BrazzavilleDEATH PENALTY
Armel Bazonzama alias Ngouabi, author of numerous murders of young women, committed between 2009
Armel Bazonzama alias Ngouabi, author of numerous murders of young women, committed between 2009
- JANUARY 1, 2014Congo - BrazzavilleDEATH PENALTY
Murder, treason, spying and offences against the State are capital crimes.
Murder, treason, spying and offences against the State are capital crimes.
- JANUARY 1, 2013Congo - BrazzavilleDEATH PENALTY
Murder, treason, spying and offences against the State are capital crimes.
Murder, treason, spying and offences against the State are capital crimes.
- JANUARY 1, 2012Congo - BrazzavilleDEATH PENALTY
Murder, treason, spying and offences against the State are capital crimes.
Murder, treason, spying and offences against the State are capital crimes.
- JUNE 16, 2011Congo - BrazzavilleDEATH PENALTY
DEATH SENTENCE OVER UN TROOPS' KILLING IN DR CONGO
a military court in Goma, in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Nord-Kivu province...
- JANUARY 1, 2011Congo - BrazzavilleDEATH PENALTY
Murder, treason, spying and offences against the State are capital crimes.
Murder, treason, spying and offences against the State are capital crimes.
- NOVEMBER 24, 2010Congo - BrazzavilleDEATH PENALTY
CONGO: HANDS OFF CAIN MISSION – JUSTICE MINISTER FOR ABOLITION
the Hands Off Cain delegation, comprising parliamentarian Elisabetta Zamparutti
- NOVEMBER 23, 2010Congo - BrazzavilleDEATH PENALTY
CONGO: HANDS OFF CAIN MISSION – MEETINGS WITH THE CHAMBER AND SENATE FOR ABOLTION OF THE DEATH PENALTY
after meeting the Secretary General of the Congo Foreign Affairs ministry Daniel Owassa yesterday, the Hands Off Cain and Non Violent Radical Party delegation (comprising parliamentarians Elisabetta Zamparutti and Marco Perduca and accompanied by the Ital
- JANUARY 1, 2010Congo - BrazzavilleDEATH PENALTY
Murder, treason, spying and offences against the State are capital crimes.
Murder, treason, spying and offences against the State are capital crimes.
- JANUARY 1, 2009Congo - BrazzavilleDEATH PENALTY
Murder, treason, spying and offences against the State are capital crimes.
Murder, treason, spying and offences against the State are capital crimes.
- JANUARY 1, 2008Congo - BrazzavilleDEATH PENALTY
Murder, treason, spying and offences against the State are capital crimes.
Murder, treason, spying and offences against the State are capital crimes.
- DECEMBER 18, 2007Congo - BrazzavilleDEATH PENALTY
Congo voted in favour of the Resolution on a Moratorium..
Congo voted in favour of the Resolution on a Moratorium...
- AUGUST 28, 2007Congo - BrazzavilleDEATH PENALTY
CONGO: SHOCK AT DEATH SENTENCES FOR MURDER OF UN RADIO JOURNALIST
Reporters Without Borders is stunned by the four death sentences imposed by a military court in the eastern city of Bukavu, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, for the murder of UN radio journalist Serge Maheshe at the end of a trial riddled with absurdi
- AUGUST 15, 2007Congo - BrazzavilleDEATH PENALTY
CONGO: PRESIDENT COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCES OF 17 PRISONERS
Congolese President Denis Sassou Nguesso granted general pardons on the occasion of Congo's National Day
- JANUARY 1, 2007Congo - BrazzavilleDEATH PENALTY
Murder, treason, spying and offences against the State are capital crimes.
Murder, treason, spying and offences against the State are capital crimes.
- JANUARY 1, 2006Congo - BrazzavilleDEATH PENALTY
Murder, treason, spying and offences against the State are capital crimes.
Murder, treason, spying and offences against the State are capital crimes.
- NOVEMBER 23, 2005Congo - BrazzavilleDEATH PENALTY
CONGO. NATIONAL ASSEMBLY DROPS FORMER PREMIER'S DEATH SENTENCE
Congo’s National Assembly unanimously voted in favour of amnesty for former Brazzaville mayor and former prime minister, Bernard Kolelas .
- APRIL 20, 2005Congo - BrazzavilleDEATH PENALTY
Congo abstained from the resolution on the death penalty at the 61st UN Commission on Human Rights.
Congo abstained from the resolution on the death penalty at the 61st UN Commission on Human Rights.
- JANUARY 1, 2005Congo - BrazzavilleDEATH PENALTY
Murder, treason, spying and offences against the State are capital crimes.
Murder, treason, spying and offences against the State are capital crimes.
- APRIL 21, 2004Congo - BrazzavilleDEATH PENALTY
Congo voted in favour of the resolution on the death...
Congo voted in favour of the resolution on the death penalty at the 60th UN Commission on Human Rights
- APRIL 11, 2004Congo - BrazzavilleDEATH PENALTY
Murder, treason, spying and offences against the State are capital crimes.
Murder, treason, spying and offences against the State are capital crimes.
- JANUARY 30, 2003Congo - BrazzavilleDEATH PENALTY
In a resolution the European Parliament called for...
In a resolution the European Parliament called for the United States, Iran, China, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Congo and others to introduce a moratorium on executions "with a view to completely abolishing the death penalty