Eritrea
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 and acts threatening State security are capital...
- News items in the archive
- 38
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Eritrea 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 38 news items on Eritrea, from 1999 to today.
Latest news
- SEPTEMBER 14, 2000EritreaDEATH PENALTY
The Sawrawi [Revolutionary] Democratic Front of Eritrea...
The Sawrawi [Revolutionary] Democratic Front of Eritrea [opposition group] said the EPLF [Eritrean People's Liberation Front]-led government executed 15 soldiers for allegedly retreating from the fighting that took place between the Ethiopian and Eritrean
- MAY 16, 2000EritreaDEATH PENALTY
Two Eritreans were executed in Saudi Arabia for stabbing...
Two Eritreans were executed in Saudi Arabia for stabbing to death a man who had accompanied them when they entered the kingdom illegally
- JANUARY 1, 2000EritreaDEATH PENALTY
The Revolutionary Council of the Eritrean Liberation...
The Revolutionary Council of the Eritrean Liberation Front said Eritrea had executed 260 activists, and abducted 65 others over the past eight years
- JANUARY 1, 2000EritreaDEATH PENALTY
Murder and acts threatening State security are capital...
Murder and acts threatening State security are capital crimes
- DECEMBER 1, 1999EritreaDEATH PENALTY
In December, the Eritrean Human Rights Organization...
In December, the Eritrean Human Rights Organization reported deterioration in free expression in Eritrea where confiscation of property and enforceable conscription of children and old men in the war are rife
- DECEMBER 1, 1999EritreaDEATH PENALTY
Also in December, Presidential Adviser Yemane Gebremeskel...
Also in December, Presidential Adviser Yemane Gebremeskel strongly rejected Ethiopian claims that its citizens in Eritrea were being denied freedom of movement
- JULY 22, 1999EritreaDEATH PENALTY
Eritrea signed the letter, dated 22 July 1999, addressed...
Eritrea signed the letter, dated 22 July 1999, addressed to the President of the Economic and Social Council, in which the retentionist countries dissociated from the Commission on Human Rights resolution 1999/61 on the question of the death penalty
- JANUARY 1, 1999EritreaDEATH PENALTY
Murder and acts threatening State security are capital...
Murder and acts threatening State security are capital crimes