Kazakhstan
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1999
Data card
- Legal status
- Abolitionist for ordinary crimes
- Executions recorded in 2026
- 0
- Executions recorded in 2025
- 0
- First news item in the archive
- JANUARY 1, 1999 · Capital crimes are: premeditated murder, genocide,...
- News items in the archive
- 142
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Kazakhstan is classified as Abolitionist for ordinary crimes 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 142 news items on Kazakhstan, from 1999 to today.
Latest news
- MARCH 26, 2001KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
The Kazakh Justice Minister, Igor Rogov, said the way...
The Kazakh Justice Minister, Igor Rogov, said the way criminal law is developing in Kazakhstan makes it possible to speculate that the republic may be getting ready to abolish the death penalty
- MARCH 26, 2001KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
Five members of an international terrorist grouping...
Five members of an international terrorist grouping that carried out terrorist acts in the Kyrgyzstani city of Osh in May and June 1998 were sentenced to capital punishment
- JANUARY 1, 2001KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
The Kazakh International Human Rights Bureau believes...
The Kazakh International Human Rights Bureau believes that 400 people have been executed in the republic over the last 9 years
- JANUARY 1, 2001KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
Human rights activists in Kazakhstan stated that there...
Human rights activists in Kazakhstan stated that there exists in the republic an "extremely repressive penal policy, most parameters of which contradict international tendencies in this sphere"
- JANUARY 1, 2001KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
Capital crimes are: premeditated murder, genocide,...
Capital crimes are: premeditated murder, genocide, sabotage, and 8 military crimes
- JANUARY 1, 2001KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
Kazakhstan does not disclose official statistics on...
Kazakhstan does not disclose official statistics on the use of the death penalty
- DECEMBER 18, 2000KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
An army sergeant was sentenced to die by firing squad...
An army sergeant was sentenced to die by firing squad after being convicted of murder by a military court in the southern Kazakh Zhambyl region
- NOVEMBER 8, 2000KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
Kazakh Commercial TV reported that a total of 17 people...
Kazakh Commercial TV reported that a total of 17 people had been executed so far in the year 2000
- JULY 11, 2000KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
A man who killed two children, aged four and seven,...
A man who killed two children, aged four and seven, their father and a relative of the family was sentenced to death in Almaty
- JULY 4, 2000KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
Five members of the "Kenzhebekov gang" were sentenced...
Five members of the "Kenzhebekov gang" were sentenced to death by the Astana city court
- JUNE 16, 2000KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
Aralbek Sherbotayev, 24, was sentenced to death by...
Aralbek Sherbotayev, 24, was sentenced to death by firing squad in Shymkent
- JANUARY 11, 2000KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
The Kurds of Kazakhstan called on the international...
The Kurds of Kazakhstan called on the international community to come to the defence of the leader of the Kurdish liberation movement, Abdullah Ocalan
- JANUARY 1, 2000KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
The Kazakh International Human Rights Bureau believes...
The Kazakh International Human Rights Bureau believes that 400 people have been executed in the republic over the last 9 years
- JANUARY 1, 2000KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
Human rights activists in Kazakhstan stated that there...
Human rights activists in Kazakhstan stated that there exists in the republic an "extremely repressive penal policy, most parameters of which contradict international tendencies in this sphere"
- JANUARY 1, 2000KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
Capital crimes are: premeditated murder, genocide,...
Capital crimes are: premeditated murder, genocide, sabotage, and 8 military crimes
- DECEMBER 1, 1999KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
In December, members of the ethnic Uighur community...
In December, members of the ethnic Uighur community of Central Asia expressed their concern and protested over the activities of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan on the unlawful deportation of three citizens of China of Uighur nationality: Ham
- SEPTEMBER 30, 1999KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
On September 30, Justice Minister Baurzhan Mukhamedzhanov...
On September 30, Justice Minister Baurzhan Mukhamedzhanov speaking on the program of legal reforms said that a stage of the draft state program for legal reforms pays attention to making criminal legislation more humane, and amongst other things it is pro
- SEPTEMBER 10, 1999KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
On September 10, the Atana City Court passed the death...
On September 10, the Atana City Court passed the death penalty on Martynov and Melnikov
- JUNE 30, 1999KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
On June 30, the Chairman of Kazakhstan's (opposition)...
On June 30, the Chairman of Kazakhstan's (opposition) Azamat party, Galym Abilsiitov said they do not support the imposition of the death penalty on the Kurdish leader, Abdullah Ocalan
- JUNE 1, 1999KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
In June, ethnic Kurdish women living in Kazakhstan...
In June, ethnic Kurdish women living in Kazakhstan appealed to President Nursultan Nazarbayev and also to the world community, the European Union, all human rights organizations and women of the world, to "influence the Turkish leadership so that it will
- JANUARY 1, 1999KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
Capital crimes are: premeditated murder, genocide,...
Capital crimes are: premeditated murder, genocide, sabotage, and 8 military crimes
- JANUARY 1, 1999KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
The Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or...
The Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions submitted an urgent appeal on behalf of Khamit Memet and two other ethnic Uighur Chinese nationals who were reportedly in imminent danger of being extradited to the Xinjiang Uighur A