Togo
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1999
Data card
- Legal status
- Abolitionist
- Executions recorded in 2026
- 0
- Executions recorded in 2025
- 0
- First news item in the archive
- JANUARY 1, 1999 · Premeditated murder and plots against the security...
- News items in the archive
- 40
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Togo is classified as Abolitionist 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 40 news items on Togo, from 1999 to today.
Latest news
- JANUARY 1, 2002TogoDEATH PENALTY
Premeditated murder and plots against the security...
Premeditated murder and plots against the security of the State are capital crimes
- MARCH 7, 2001TogoDEATH PENALTY
Togo's government announced the establishment of a...
Togo's government announced the establishment of a four-man commission of inquiry to investigate allegations of extra-judicial executions during the 1998 presidential election campaign
- FEBRUARY 22, 2001TogoDEATH PENALTY
Investigators from the United Nations and the Organisation...
Investigators from the United Nations and the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) said they were convinced that Togolese security forces, gendarmes and militias had murdered, tortured and raped people following the 1998 presidential elections
- JANUARY 1, 2001TogoDEATH PENALTY
Premeditated murder and plots against the security...
Premeditated murder and plots against the security of the State are capital crimes
- DECEMBER 14, 2000TogoDEATH PENALTY
The joint United Nations/Organisation of African Unity...
The joint United Nations/Organisation of African Unity (OAU) international committee of enquiry concluded its visit in Togo, where it was investigating allegations by the London-based Amnesty International that authorities had carried out extra-judicial e
- JUNE 7, 2000TogoDEATH PENALTY
The United Nations announced it would probe the murder...
The United Nations announced it would probe the murder of hundreds of people in Togo two years ago, allegedly by paramilitary forces after 1998 presidential elections
- JANUARY 1, 2000TogoDEATH PENALTY
Premeditated murder and plots against the security...
Premeditated murder and plots against the security of the State are capital crimes
- SEPTEMBER 1, 1999TogoDEATH PENALTY
On September 1, Sierra Leone's rebel leader Foday Sankoh...
On September 1, Sierra Leone's rebel leader Foday Sankoh left Togo at the beginning of a winding journey back to his homeland, which is ravaged by a civil war he started
- JULY 22, 1999TogoDEATH PENALTY
Togo signed the letter, dated 22 July 1999, addressed...
Togo 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, 1999TogoDEATH PENALTY
Premeditated murder and plots against the security...
Premeditated murder and plots against the security of the State are capital crimes