Côte d’Ivoire
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1999
Data card
- Legal status
- Abolitionist
- Executions recorded in 2026
- 0
- Executions recorded in 2025
- 0
- First news item in the archive
- JANUARY 1, 1999 · Murder, treason and desertion are capital crimes
- News items in the archive
- 53
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Côte d’Ivoire 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 53 news items on Côte d’Ivoire, from 1999 to today.
Latest news
- DECEMBER 19, 2002Côte d’IvoireDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International said that both loyalist forces...
Amnesty International said that both loyalist forces and rebel groups in Ivory Coast's messy war were carrying out summary executions and other abuses against civilians
- DECEMBER 18, 2002Côte d’IvoireDEATH PENALTY
Radio France Internationale reported Ibrahim Doumbia,...
Radio France Internationale reported Ibrahim Doumbia, vice-president of the Ivorian Human Rights Movement, as saying that arbitrary arrests, house searches without warrants, and summary executions had turned into a daily phenomenon in certain parts of the
- NOVEMBER 18, 2002Côte d’IvoireDEATH PENALTY
Transport Minister Marcel Amon-Tanoh announced his...
Transport Minister Marcel Amon-Tanoh announced his resignation due to the government's human rights violations
- OCTOBER 16, 2002Côte d’IvoireDEATH PENALTY
In Geneva, the United Nations human rights chief Sergio...
In Geneva, the United Nations human rights chief Sergio Vieira de Mello said he was seriously worried about the human rights situation in Ivory Coast
- SEPTEMBER 24, 2002Côte d’IvoireDEATH PENALTY
Ivory Coast opposition leader Alassane Ouattara said...
Ivory Coast opposition leader Alassane Ouattara said in an interview that the security forces who executed former junta leader Robert Guei had also tried to kill him the week previously
- SEPTEMBER 20, 2002Côte d’IvoireDEATH PENALTY
Relatives of Ivory Coast's former junta leader Robert...
Relatives of Ivory Coast's former junta leader Robert Guei and his wife Rose said that they had been executed by security forces and not in a shootout as was reported on state television
- SEPTEMBER 19, 2002Côte d’IvoireDEATH PENALTY
The Abidjan Panafrican News Agency reported that Ivorian...
The Abidjan Panafrican News Agency reported that Ivorian gendarmes and policemen carried out numerous summary executions against those they captured during a mutiny outbreak of about 750 soldiers
- JANUARY 1, 2002Côte d’IvoireDEATH PENALTY
Between July 23 and 24, 2000, 86
Between July 23 and 24, 2000, 86
- JULY 20, 2001Côte d’IvoireDEATH PENALTY
A U.N. panel investigating political violence in the...
A U.N. panel investigating political violence in the Ivory Coast said that government security forces bore responsibility for hundreds of killings and beatings that took place in the West African nation in October and December 2000
- MAY 30, 2001Côte d’IvoireDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International accused the security forces in...
Amnesty International accused the security forces in the Ivory Coast of committing some of the worst human rights abuses seen in the West African state for three decades
- MARCH 2, 2001Côte d’IvoireDEATH PENALTY
The US ambassador to Ivory Coast, Georges Mu, said...
The US ambassador to Ivory Coast, Georges Mu, said that the human rights situation markedly improved in 2000 in Cote d'Ivoire
- JANUARY 1, 2001Côte d’IvoireDEATH PENALTY
Between July 23 and 24, 2000, 86
Between July 23 and 24, 2000, 86
- DECEMBER 22, 2000Côte d’IvoireDEATH PENALTY
Human Rights Watch, has implicated the government of...
Human Rights Watch, has implicated the government of Cote d'Ivoire in the violence that claimed hundreds of lives during the 22 October presidential elections
- OCTOBER 28, 2000Côte d’IvoireDEATH PENALTY
A mass grave was discovered at an industrial zone of...
A mass grave was discovered at an industrial zone of Yopougon containing the bodies of 55 men, which all appeared to have been shot at close range
- OCTOBER 22, 2000Côte d’IvoireDEATH PENALTY
Laurent Gbagbo became the new President through a series...
Laurent Gbagbo became the new President through a series of remarkable events
- OCTOBER 3, 2000Côte d’IvoireDEATH PENALTY
6 soldiers arrested in connection with an armed attack...
6 soldiers arrested in connection with an armed attack on the army ruler General Robert Guei's house on September 18 have disappeared
- SEPTEMBER 19, 2000Côte d’IvoireDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International said that groups of Ivory Coast...
Amnesty International said that groups of Ivory Coast soldiers had been summarily killing unarmed suspected criminals and mistreating lawyers and journalists since the military coup on Christmas Eve, 1999
- AUGUST 1, 2000Côte d’IvoireDEATH PENALTY
With the promulgation of the new constitution, the...
With the promulgation of the new constitution, the Ivory Coast formally abolished the death penalty
- JULY 23, 2000Côte d’IvoireDEATH PENALTY
July 23-24, 2000: 86
July 23-24, 2000: 86
- DECEMBER 24, 1999Côte d’IvoireDEATH PENALTY
On 24 December 1999, President Bédié and his government...
On 24 December 1999, President Bédié and his government were overthrown in the country's first military coup
- MARCH 1, 1999Côte d’IvoireDEATH PENALTY
Also in March, a trader from Côte d'Ivoire was sentenced...
Also in March, a trader from Côte d'Ivoire was sentenced to hang for drug trafficking in Malaysia
- MARCH 1, 1999Côte d’IvoireDEATH PENALTY
In March, the High Court in the Côte d'Ivoire sentenced...
In March, the High Court in the Côte d'Ivoire sentenced 6 people aged between 18 and 20 to death for armed robbery
- JANUARY 1, 1999Côte d’IvoireDEATH PENALTY
Murder, treason and desertion are capital crimes
Murder, treason and desertion are capital crimes