Sudan
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 · The Sudanese Penal Code is part of the 1983 Shari'a...
- News items in the archive
- 331
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Sudan 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 331 news items on Sudan, from 1999 to today.
Latest news
- NOVEMBER 1, 2002SudanDEATH PENALTY
November 12-20, 2002: 17 women from the village of...
November 12-20, 2002: 17 women from the village of Munwashi, 80 km north of Nyala in Darfour, Western Sudan, were convicted of adultery and each sentenced to 100 lashes of the whip
- SEPTEMBER 3, 2002SudanDEATH PENALTY
Three men were executed by hanging in a Khartoum jail...
Three men were executed by hanging in a Khartoum jail after they were found guilty of killing a woman in the northern part of Sudan in 2001
- SEPTEMBER 2, 2002SudanDEATH PENALTY
The EU expressed concern over death sentences given...
The EU expressed concern over death sentences given to 88 people in Nyala in the Darfour region of Sudan
- AUGUST 25, 2002SudanDEATH PENALTY
The Sudanese government said it would not overturn...
The Sudanese government said it would not overturn the death sentences on 88 people who were involved in a deadly tribal clash despite an appeal from rights group Amnesty International
- AUGUST 23, 2002SudanDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International stated it was gravely concerned...
Amnesty International stated it was gravely concerned that time was running out for 88 people, including two children, sentenced to death by hanging or crucifixion, for their alleged role in ethnic clashes in Rizeigat, Southern Darfur
- JULY 23, 2002SudanDEATH PENALTY
A Sudanese court sentenced fifteen people, including...
A Sudanese court sentenced fifteen people, including a woman, to death for deadly April attacks on two villages of the Fur ethnic minority, the official SUNA news agency reported
- JULY 17, 2002SudanDEATH PENALTY
The special court in Nyala town, South Darfur State,...
The special court in Nyala town, South Darfur State, has sentenced 87 convicts to death and imprisonment of one accused for 10 years and acquitted eight defendants due to lack of evidence
- JULY 1, 2002SudanDEATH PENALTY
International human rights groups expressed concern...
International human rights groups expressed concern over what they describe as a "sharp increase" in death sentences in 2002 in the Darfur region of western Sudan
- JUNE 25, 2002SudanDEATH PENALTY
The International Secretariat of OMCT is gravely concerned...
The International Secretariat of OMCT is gravely concerned for the physical and psychological integrity of the 14 men that have been identified as having been sentenced to death
- JUNE 25, 2002SudanDEATH PENALTY
The International Secretariat of OMCT (World Organization...
The International Secretariat of OMCT (World Organization Against Torture) was informed by the Sudan Organisation Against Torture (SOAT), a member of the OMCT network, of the names of 14 prisoners charged with armed robbery who are awaiting execution, in
- JUNE 24, 2002SudanDEATH PENALTY
The International Secretariat of the World Organisation...
The International Secretariat of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) has been informed by the Sudan Organisation Against Torture (SOAT), a member of the OMCT network, that 12 prisoners that were charged with armed robbery were hanged on May 22nd
- JUNE 4, 2002SudanDEATH PENALTY
Twenty-five south Sudanese students were given a four-month...
Twenty-five south Sudanese students were given a four-month suspended sentence for celebrating the founding of the main rebel group in Sudan's civil war, defence lawyers said
- MAY 22, 2002SudanDEATH PENALTY
Sudan's state security force arrested 25 university...
Sudan's state security force arrested 25 university students on charges including trying to overthrow the government, which can carry the death penalty, the pro-government Akbar al-Youm newspaper reported
- APRIL 25, 2002SudanDEATH PENALTY
Sudan voted against the resolution 2002/77 on the death...
Sudan voted against the resolution 2002/77 on the death penalty at the 58th UN Commission on Human Rights
- MARCH 28, 2002SudanDEATH PENALTY
Sudan admitted for the first time that a young Christian...
Sudan admitted for the first time that a young Christian woman had been condemned to death by stoning for adultery
- FEBRUARY 26, 2002SudanDEATH PENALTY
The International Secretariat of the World Organisation...
The International Secretariat of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) received information from the Sudanese Victims of Torture Group (SVTG), a member of the OMCT network, that on 24 January 2002, a sentence of amputation of the right hand was ex
- FEBRUARY 26, 2002SudanDEATH PENALTY
Sudan might have Sharia but a woman judge says that...
Sudan might have Sharia but a woman judge says that her society is changing
- FEBRUARY 15, 2002SudanDEATH PENALTY
A cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church suggested that...
A cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church suggested that the time may be right for the launch of an international campaign of protest against Sudan for violating human rights, according to reports from the Rome-based international news agency Zenit, which s
- FEBRUARY 10, 2002SudanDEATH PENALTY
A Sudanese appeals court overturned a sentence of death...
A Sudanese appeals court overturned a sentence of death by stoning for a pregnant Christian woman accused of adultery, and sent the case back to the lower court for fresh sentencing, court documents showed
- FEBRUARY 6, 2002SudanDEATH PENALTY
Italian Equal Opportunities Minister Stefania Prestigiacomo...
Italian Equal Opportunities Minister Stefania Prestigiacomo said the time had come for the European Union to stop women being stoned to death in some Arab countries
- FEBRUARY 1, 2002SudanDEATH PENALTY
Special "emergency courts" established in 2001 in Sudan...
Special "emergency courts" established in 2001 in Sudan are being used to impose inhumane sentences such as death by stoning and amputations, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said
- JANUARY 24, 2002SudanDEATH PENALTY
A sentence of amputation of the right hand was executed...
A sentence of amputation of the right hand was executed on Anthony James Ladou Wani, a 46 year old Christian belonging to the KaKwa tribe from Southern Sudan
- JANUARY 5, 2002SudanDEATH PENALTY
The Sudanese Ministry of Justice said that it had received...
The Sudanese Ministry of Justice said that it had received a letter from the European Union urging the government to pardon five people who had been sentenced to death or cross amputations
- JANUARY 1, 2002SudanDEATH PENALTY
In accordance with Shari'a law, the Criminal Act provides...
In accordance with Shari'a law, the Criminal Act provides for physical punishments including flogging, amputation, stonings, and crucifixion--the public display of a body after execution
- JANUARY 1, 2002SudanDEATH PENALTY
Up to 1998 Sudan was one of the few States in the world...
Up to 1998 Sudan was one of the few States in the world that allowed the death penalty for minors
- JANUARY 1, 2002SudanDEATH PENALTY
According to the information received, under Articles...
According to the information received, under Articles 167 and 168 of the Sudan Penal Code, the punishment for armed robbery, also known as harrab, is death and death followed by crucifixion
- DECEMBER 27, 2001SudanDEATH PENALTY
Adam Ibrahim Uthman and Abdullah Isma'il Ibrahim were...
Adam Ibrahim Uthman and Abdullah Isma'il Ibrahim were convicted of banditry and possession of unlicensed weapons, and sentenced to cross amputation - amputation of the right hand and left foot, a Human Rights Watch statement said
- DECEMBER 25, 2001SudanDEATH PENALTY
Muhammad Adam Yahya and Ahmad Sulayman Muhammad were...
Muhammad Adam Yahya and Ahmad Sulayman Muhammad were sentenced to amputation of the right hand followed by death by hanging, for armed robbery, Human Rights Watch reported
- DECEMBER 25, 2001SudanDEATH PENALTY
Muhammad Adam Yahya and Ahmad Sulayman Muhammad were...
Muhammad Adam Yahya and Ahmad Sulayman Muhammad were sentenced to amputation of the right hand followed by death by hanging, for armed robbery, Human Rights Watch said
- DECEMBER 25, 2001SudanDEATH PENALTY
Three men were executed in northern Darfur in Sudan
Three men were executed in northern Darfur in Sudan