Mauritania
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 · High treason, premeditated murder and torture are capital...
- News items in the archive
- 51
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Mauritania 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 51 news items on Mauritania, from 1999 to today.
Latest news
- JANUARY 1, 2010MauritaniaDEATH PENALTY
High treason, premeditated murder and torture are capital crimes.
High treason, premeditated murder and torture are capital crimes.
- JANUARY 1, 2009MauritaniaDEATH PENALTY
High treason, premeditated murder and torture are capital crimes.
High treason, premeditated murder and torture are capital crimes.
- JANUARY 1, 2008MauritaniaDEATH PENALTY
High treason, premeditated murder and torture are capital crimes.
High treason, premeditated murder and torture are capital crimes.
- DECEMBER 18, 2007MauritaniaDEATH PENALTY
Mauritania voted against the Resolution...
Mauritania voted against the Resolution...
- APRIL 30, 2007Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA BEHEADS MAURITANIAN FOR RAPE
a Mauritanian convicted of rape was beheaded by the sword in Saudi Arabia in the Muslim holy city of Medina, according to a statement by the interior ministry.
- JANUARY 1, 2007MauritaniaDEATH PENALTY
High treason, premeditated murder and torture are capital crimes.
High treason, premeditated murder and torture are capital crimes.
- JANUARY 1, 2006MauritaniaDEATH PENALTY
High treason, premeditated murder and torture are capital crimes.
High treason, premeditated murder and torture are capital crimes.
- APRIL 20, 2005MauritaniaDEATH PENALTY
Mauritania voted against the resolution on the death penalty at the 61st UN Commission on Human Rights.
Mauritania voted against the resolution on the death penalty at the 61st UN Commission on Human Rights.
- FEBRUARY 3, 2005MauritaniaDEATH PENALTY
Mauritania concluded its largest-ever trial, issuing guilty verdicts to 84 people and acquitting more than 100 others...
Mauritania concluded its largest-ever trial, issuing guilty verdicts to 84 people and acquitting more than 100 others including a former president accused of bankrolling three plots to overthrow President Maaouiya Ould Taya.
- JANUARY 13, 2005MauritaniaDEATH PENALTY
defence lawyers in the trial of 195 people accused of plotting...
defence lawyers in the trial of 195 people accused of plotting...
- JANUARY 6, 2005MauritaniaDEATH PENALTY
a state prosecutor in Mauritania requested the death penalty for...
a state prosecutor in Mauritania requested the death penalty for...
- JANUARY 1, 2005MauritaniaDEATH PENALTY
High treason, premeditated murder and torture are capital crimes.
High treason, premeditated murder and torture are capital crimes.
- APRIL 21, 2004MauritaniaDEATH PENALTY
Mauritania voted against the resolution on the death...
Mauritania voted against the resolution on the death penalty at the 60th UN Commission on Human Rights
- APRIL 11, 2004MauritaniaDEATH PENALTY
High treason, premeditated murder and torture are capital crimes.
High treason, premeditated murder and torture are capital crimes.
- JANUARY 1, 2003MauritaniaDEATH PENALTY
High treason, premeditated murder and torture are capital...
High treason, premeditated murder and torture are capital crimes
- JANUARY 1, 2002MauritaniaDEATH PENALTY
High treason, premeditated murder and torture are capital...
High treason, premeditated murder and torture are capital crimes
- JANUARY 1, 2001MauritaniaDEATH PENALTY
High treason, premeditated murder and torture are capital...
High treason, premeditated murder and torture are capital crimes
- FEBRUARY 29, 2000MauritaniaDEATH PENALTY
Religious leaders from twenty states and 19 religious...
Religious leaders from twenty states and 19 religious organizations sent a letter to Secretary of State Madeleine Albright urging that the U
- JANUARY 1, 2000MauritaniaDEATH PENALTY
High treason, premeditated murder and torture are capital...
High treason, premeditated murder and torture are capital crimes
- JULY 22, 1999MauritaniaDEATH PENALTY
Mauritania signed the letter, dated 22 July 1999, addressed...
Mauritania 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, 1999MauritaniaDEATH PENALTY
High treason, premeditated murder and torture are capital...
High treason, premeditated murder and torture are capital crimes