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JANUARY 12, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jafar Fallah executed in Semnan on January 12
JANUARY 12, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Pouya Asgari executed in Arak on January 12
JANUARY 11, 2025DEATH PENALTYIRAN - Pakhshan Azizi is one step away from execution
- JANUARY 10, 2025DEATH PENALTY
USA - Federal judge delays 9/11 deals
Some victims' family members criticize Biden's lack of “political” courage
- JANUARY 9, 2025DEATH PENALTY
DRC: AUTHORITIES ANNOUNCE 170 PRISONERS TO BE EXECUTED
More than 170 inmates on death row were flown from Congo’s capital to a high-security prison in the north where they will be executed, Congolese authorities said.
JANUARY 9, 2025DEATH PENALTYINDIA: SENTENCED TO DEATH AS MINOR, MAN SET FREE AFTER 23 YEARS
The Supreme Court of India on January 8, 2025 set free a minor offender, more than 23 years after he was sentenced to death by an Uttarakhand court in a murder case
JANUARY 9, 2025DEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hassan Norouzi executed in Qom on January 9
JANUARY 9, 2025DEATH PENALTYIRAN - Samad Najar-Asl executed in Isfahan on January 9
JANUARY 9, 2025DEATH PENALTYIRAN - List of 54 Political and Security Prisoners on Death Row
JANUARY 9, 2025DEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Isfahan on January 9
Behrouz Ghasemi, Houshang Shahi, Samad Najjar Asl
JANUARY 8, 2025DEATH PENALTYIRAN - Italian Journalist Cecilia Sala Released
- JANUARY 8, 2025DEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Death Sentence upheld for Pakhshan Azizi
Kurdish political prisoner
JANUARY 8, 2025DEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hamid Ashna (Noutizehi) executed in Kerman on January 8
JANUARY 8, 2025DEATH PENALTYIRAN - Milad Baoo Dieselabadi executed in Sari on January 8
JANUARY 8, 2025DEATH PENALTYIRAN - 5 men executed in Karaj (Ghezel-Hesar) on January 8
Salman Bozorgmehr, Reza Azizian, and Ashkan Pirian + 2 Unk
JANUARY 8, 2025DEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abdorrahman Boroumand Center Year-End report
Iran Executed At Least 938 in 2024
- JANUARY 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Sixth execution reported in Karaj (Ghezel Hesar) on Jan. 8
An unidentified Afghan
- JANUARY 7, 2025DEATH PENALTY
IRAN Farman Afristam executed in Kermanshah on January 7
JANUARY 7, 2025DEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Kermanshah on January 7
Mozafar Shahsavari, Mohammad Shahidi, and Ashkan Kazemi
JANUARY 7, 2025DEATH PENALTYUSA - US transfers 11 Guantanamo detainees to Oman
After more than two decades without charge
JANUARY 7, 2025DEATH PENALTYIRAN - Death sentences for Behrouz Ehsani and Mehdi Hassani
Political prisoners accused of belonging to the PMOI
JANUARY 7, 2025DEATH PENALTYUSA - Two death row inmates reject Biden’s clemency
Shannon Agofsky and Len Davis
JANUARY 7, 2025DEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iran HRM Year-End report
Iran Executed At Least 993 in 2024
- JANUARY 7, 2025DEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Alireza Mehrabadi executed in Sabzevar on January 7
JANUARY 7, 2025DEATH PENALTYIRAN - Volker Türk "deeply troubled by the marked increase in executions in Iran in 2024"
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
- JANUARY 6, 2025DEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ali Saadi executed in Ahvaz on January 6
JANUARY 6, 2025DEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Atin and Reza Seyedi executed in Mahabad on January 6
JANUARY 6, 2025DEATH PENALTYIRAN - IHR Year-End Report on Women
31 women executed in 2024
- JANUARY 6, 2025DEATH PENALTY
USA - Why Does the United States Bother to Impose Death Sentences?
Editorial by Professor Austin Sarat, Amherst College
- JANUARY 5, 2025DEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Khalil Alizahi e Amir Mohammad Farahani executed in Shiraz on January 5