Lebanon
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1999
Data card
- Legal status
- Retentionist
- Executions recorded in 2026
- 0
- Executions recorded in 2025
- 0
- First news item in the archive
- JANUARY 1, 1999 · In 1994, capital punishment was reintroduced as an...
- News items in the archive
- 224
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Lebanon is classified as Retentionist 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 224 news items on Lebanon, from 1999 to today.
Latest news
- JUNE 1, 2001LebanonDEATH PENALTY
The Military Tribunal sentenced five members of the...
The Military Tribunal sentenced five members of the South Lebanon Army militia to death in absentia for killing resistance fighters who fought Israeli troops during the occupation of the South
- MAY 31, 2001LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Some 300 school children participated in a children's...
Some 300 school children participated in a children's art exhibition sponsored by the Movement for People's Rights as part of its nationwide campaign against capital punishment
- MAY 30, 2001LebanonDEATH PENALTY
A Mount Lebanon criminal court sentenced two Indian...
A Mount Lebanon criminal court sentenced two Indian men to death for the murder of one of their compatriots
- MAY 28, 2001LebanonDEATH PENALTY
The Bekaa criminal court sentenced two men to death...
The Bekaa criminal court sentenced two men to death for the 1994 double-homicide of a woman and her daughter in Anjar
- MAY 15, 2001LebanonDEATH PENALTY
At a conference organized by the Université Saint Joseph...
At a conference organized by the Université Saint Joseph Law School to discuss the death penalty in Europe, Italian Ambassador Guiseppe Cassini cited Cesare Beccaria's essay, "On Crimes and Punishments" (1764) questioning whether the death penalty is usef
- APRIL 24, 2001LebanonDEATH PENALTY
A Beirut criminal court sentenced Hassan Khalil Ahmad,...
A Beirut criminal court sentenced Hassan Khalil Ahmad, a Sudanese man, to death after finding him guilty of murdering and robbing an Eritrean man in Beirut two years ago
- APRIL 2, 2001LebanonDEATH PENALTY
The former head of the South Lebanon Army's intelligence...
The former head of the South Lebanon Army's intelligence wing in Bint Jbeil has been sentenced to death by the Military Tribunal for working against the resistance
- MARCH 29, 2001LebanonDEATH PENALTY
The Bekaa Criminal Court handed down two death sentences,...
The Bekaa Criminal Court handed down two death sentences, convicting a man and a woman of murder in two separate cases
- MARCH 12, 2001LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Lebanese President Emile Lahoud asked the Foreign Ministry...
Lebanese President Emile Lahoud asked the Foreign Ministry to contact countries who have good relations with Congo to help uncover the circumstances of the recent execution of a number of Lebanese in Kinshasa
- MARCH 11, 2001LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Thousands of Lebanese demonstrated to protest against...
Thousands of Lebanese demonstrated to protest against the killing of their nationals in the Democratic Republic of Congo and urged the Congolese authorities to punish the killers
- MARCH 7, 2001LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Democratic Republic of Congo has officially confirmed...
Democratic Republic of Congo has officially confirmed the execution of 11 Lebanese, who were arrested shortly after the assassination of Congolese President Laurent Kabila on January 16
- MARCH 7, 2001LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Democratic Republic of Congo has officially confirmed...
Democratic Republic of Congo has officially confirmed the execution of 11 Lebanese, who were arrested shortly after the assassination of Congolese President Laurent Kabila on January 16
- FEBRUARY 2, 2001LebanonDEATH PENALTY
A delegation representing several human-rights groups...
A delegation representing several human-rights groups spoke with Speaker Nabih Berri, urging him to abolish the death penalty
- JANUARY 30, 2001LebanonDEATH PENALTY
A Syrian national, Ibrahim Issa , was sentenced to...
A Syrian national, Ibrahim Issa , was sentenced to death in absentia after he was found guilty of murdering a woman, Salwat Asafiri, at her home in Beirut in 1998
- JANUARY 29, 2001LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Diplomats said that the European Union delegation that...
Diplomats said that the European Union delegation that visited President Emile Lahoud discussed scrapping the death penalty in Lebanon
- JANUARY 23, 2001LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Swedish Ambassador Anne Desmorr on behalf of the European...
Swedish Ambassador Anne Desmorr on behalf of the European Community's called for Lebanon to drop the death penalty and asked Justice Minister Samir Jisr to suspend 15 planned executions for various crimes
- JANUARY 12, 2001LebanonDEATH PENALTY
The Committee for Amnesty has started examining the...
The Committee for Amnesty has started examining the files of four cases involving irrevocable death penalties before passing them on to the Justice Minister and subsequently to President Emile Lahoud, whose signature is final
- JANUARY 11, 2001LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Fadi Maraash, 20, convicted by the Military Tribunal...
Fadi Maraash, 20, convicted by the Military Tribunal in 2000 of murdering his neighbor, Aisha Aisha, 19, despite diagnosed as a schizophrenic, had his death sentence approved by all of the authorities - including President Emile Lahoud, who postponed his
- JANUARY 11, 2001LebanonDEATH PENALTY
MP George Deeb Neameh called for "completely abolishing"...
MP George Deeb Neameh called for "completely abolishing" capital punishment and for examining the true social and economic causes of crime
- JANUARY 10, 2001LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Justice Minister Samir Jisr said he will improve what...
Justice Minister Samir Jisr said he will improve what he calls the country's "disastrous" prison conditions, but remained firm in his belief that capital punishment is a necessity
- JANUARY 3, 2001LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Around 200 protestors demanding the abolition of capital...
Around 200 protestors demanding the abolition of capital punishment in Lebanon demonstrated near the cabinet headquarters
- JANUARY 1, 2001LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Since independence on November 22, 1943, approximately...
Since independence on November 22, 1943, approximately 48 people have been executed in Lebanon
- JANUARY 1, 2001LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Executions carried out by Lebanese Presidents: Beshara...
Executions carried out by Lebanese Presidents: Beshara Khoury (1943-1952) 19; Camille Chamoun(1952-1958) 6; Fuad Chehab (1958-1964) 4; Charles Helou (1964-1970) 0; Suleiman Franjieh (1970-1976) 4; Elias Sarkis (1976-1982) 0; Amin Gemayel (1982-1988) 1; El
- DECEMBER 16, 2000LebanonDEATH PENALTY
For the first time since executions resumed in 1994...
For the first time since executions resumed in 1994 there is a debate on the merits of the death penalty - something lacking until not long ago, when the authorities snuffed out murderers at will
- JULY 17, 2000LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Relatives of prisoners sentenced to death for their...
Relatives of prisoners sentenced to death for their participation in clashes with the Lebanese Army in Dinnieh last January demonstrated outside the Mansouri Mosque in Tripoli
- JUNE 29, 2000LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Jamal Deeb Amin, 40, received the death penalty for...
Jamal Deeb Amin, 40, received the death penalty for killing his daughter near Nabatieh in 1999 because he suspected she wanted to marry against his will
- JUNE 23, 2000LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International criticised the summary trials...
Amnesty International criticised the summary trials of more than 2,000 former South Lebanon Army militia members and those said to have "collaborated" with Israel as "travesties" of justice
- JUNE 3, 2000LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Relatives of former SLA members who surrendered to...
Relatives of former SLA members who surrendered to the government demanded to know the conditions in which they were being held and the likely lengths of their prison sentences before encouraging the return of those who fled to Israel
- MAY 27, 2000LebanonDEATH PENALTY
The Lebanese army said it was holding 1,488 members...
The Lebanese army said it was holding 1,488 members of the disintegrated Israeli-backed South Lebanon Army (SLA) militia who surrendered during the withdrawal of Israeli forces from south Lebanon
- MAY 26, 2000LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah addressed tens of thousands...
Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah addressed tens of thousands of people at a victory rally in Bint Jbeil town