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
- JANUARY 11, 2003Congo - BrazzavilleDEATH PENALTY
A UN investigation committee in the Congo found 117...
A UN investigation committee in the Congo found 117 cases of arbitrary executions
- JANUARY 1, 2003Congo - BrazzavilleDEATH PENALTY
Murder, treason, spying and offenses against the State...
Murder, treason, spying and offenses against the State are capital crimes
- FEBRUARY 6, 2002Congo - BrazzavilleDEATH PENALTY
The Zambian Supreme Court confirmed the death sentence...
The Zambian Supreme Court confirmed the death sentence imposed on a Congolese national for murdering two members of one family and staging three armed robberies in Mufulira in 1997
- JANUARY 1, 2002Congo - BrazzavilleDEATH PENALTY
Murder, treason, spying and offenses against the State...
Murder, treason, spying and offenses against the State are capital crimes
- JULY 27, 2001Congo - BrazzavilleDEATH PENALTY
Congo Republic's exiled former Prime Minister Bernard...
Congo Republic's exiled former Prime Minister Bernard Kolelas vowed to try to return to his homeland soon despite a death sentence passed after he fled a bloody civil war
- JANUARY 1, 2001Congo - BrazzavilleDEATH PENALTY
Murder, treason, spying and offenses against the State...
Murder, treason, spying and offenses against the State are capital crimes
- DECEMBER 19, 2000Congo - BrazzavilleDEATH PENALTY
The Brazaville branch of the ruling Congolese Labour...
The Brazaville branch of the ruling Congolese Labour Party (PCT), opposed any form of amnesty to former President Pascal Lissouba and his last Prime Minister Bernard Kolelas who were sentenced to death
- MAY 4, 2000Congo - BrazzavilleDEATH PENALTY
The Brazzaville criminal court handed down suspended...
The Brazzaville criminal court handed down suspended death sentences to former prime minister of the Republic of Congo, Bernard Kolelas, and his cousin, former Interior Minister Philippe Bikikinta
- APRIL 26, 2000Congo - BrazzavilleDEATH PENALTY
Congo cosponsored and voted in favour of the resolution...
Congo cosponsored and voted in favour of the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights on April 26 (no
- JANUARY 1, 2000Congo - BrazzavilleDEATH PENALTY
Murder, treason, spying and offenses against the State...
Murder, treason, spying and offenses against the State are capital crimes
- APRIL 28, 1999Congo - BrazzavilleDEATH PENALTY
Congo voted in favor of the resolution on the death...
Congo voted in favor of the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights on April 28 (1999/61)
- JANUARY 1, 1999Congo - BrazzavilleDEATH PENALTY
Murder, treason, spying and offenses against the State...
Murder, treason, spying and offenses against the State are capital crimes