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DECEMBER 30, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abdul Shawali executed in Karaj on December 30
DECEMBER 30, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN 2 Afghan citizens executed in Karaj on December 30
Not identified
DECEMBER 29, 2023VietnamDEATH PENALTYVIETNAM: MAN GETS DEATH FOR BANK CAPER MURDER
A man who unsuccessfully tried to rob a bank in Da Nang was sentenced to death on December 28, 2023 for killing a security guard who chased him from the crime scene.
DECEMBER 29, 2023BurundiDEATH PENALTYBURUNDI: PRESIDENT SAYS GAY PEOPLE SHOULD BE STONED IN STADIUMS
Burundi's President Évariste Ndayishimiye has said that homosexuals in his country "should be stoned", BBC reported on December 29, 2023.
DECEMBER 29, 2023QatarDEATH PENALTYQATAR COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCE OF 8 INDIAN NAVY VETERANS
A Qatar court has reduced sentences for eight former Indian Navy personnel involved in an alleged espionage case, India’s Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said on December 28, 2023.
DECEMBER 29, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Asghar Abdullah Parikhani and Abbas Faraj Oghli executed in Meshgin Shahr
Parikhani on December 29, Oghli on December 25
DECEMBER 28, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men “recently” executed in Karaj
Akbar Qara Gozlu, Ehsan Hamedi + Unk.
DECEMBER 28, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 political prisoners executed in Urmia on December 28
3 men and 1 woman: Aram Omri, Rahman Parhazou, Vafa Hanareh, and Nasim Namazi
DECEMBER 28, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hassan Rahbar executed in Gorgan on December 28
DECEMBER 28, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Karim Aminikhah executed in Bandar Abbas on December 28
DECEMBER 28, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Reza Eyvazi executed in Kashan on December 28
- DECEMBER 28, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Public execution in Najaf Abad for the murder of a police agent
Unidentified
DECEMBER 28, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unnamed man executed in Yazd on December 28
DECEMBER 27, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ismaeil Ghader Magham (Barahoei) executed in Birjand on December 27
DECEMBER 27, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ramin Faghiri Executed in Hamedan on December 27
DECEMBER 27, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mansour Salamat killed under the torture on December 27
DECEMBER 27, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Birjand on December 27
Ismail Qadir Maqam, Ahmad Gergij, Mohammad Hissari
DECEMBER 27, 2023VietnamDEATH PENALTYVIETNAM: PRESIDENT REDUCES DEATH SENTENCE TO LIFE FOR 18 PRISONERS
President Vo Van Thuong signed a decision on December 27, 2023 to reduce death penalties to life imprisonment for 18 prisoners who filed petitions for commuted sentences.
DECEMBER 27, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Ardabil on December 27
Yasin Khodakarami, Alireza Nejati, Jebreil Fadayi, Ali Zaman Khani
DECEMBER 27, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - HRANA: Annual Report on Human Rights in Iran for the year 2023
DECEMBER 27, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 women and 1 man executed in Birjand on December 27
DECEMBER 27, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehdi Dahmardeh executed in Birjand on December 27
Nineth person to be executed that day in that prison
DECEMBER 26, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Reza Mehraban executed in Sanandaj on December 26
DECEMBER 26, 2023NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: COURT SENTENCES MAN TO DEATH BY HANGING FOR SETTING HIS MOTHER ABLAZE IN NIGER STATE
The Minna High Court presided over by the Chief Judge of Niger State, Justice Halima Ibrahim Abdulmalik, on December 13, 2023 sentenced Stephen Jiya to death by hanging for setting his biological mother ablaze which resulted in her death.
DECEMBER 26, 2023Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: 2 BANGLADESHIS EXECUTED FOR KILLING AN INDIAN
Two expatriates were executed in Saudi Arabia after they had been convicted in a final court ruling of murdering a man by spraying an insecticide into his mouth, Gulf News reported on December 23, 2023.
DECEMBER 24, 2023MaldivesDEATH PENALTYMALDIVES’ PUSH TO REINSTATE DEATH PENALTY SPARKS UPROAR
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on the Maldives government to refrain from a planned move to reintroduce the death penalty in the Muslim-majority South Asian nation.
DECEMBER 23, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Isfahan
Shirali Saeidi and Saman Mogouei on December 23, Reza Keshavarzi on December 22
DECEMBER 23, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Karamullah Lorestani and Hossein Papi executed in Khorramabad on December 23
DECEMBER 22, 2023OklahomaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Oklahoma. Glynn Simmons formally exonerated
After 48 years in prison
DECEMBER 21, 2023TanzaniaDEATH PENALTYTANZANIA: SIX PEOPLE SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER CHURCH BOMBING
Six people found guilty of bombing a Catholic church in Arusha, northwestern Tanzania in 2013 have been sentenced to death.