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DECEMBER 29, 2022PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING TRANSGENDER PERSON IN CHARSADDA
A district and sessions judge in Charsadda on 23 December 2022 convicted a man for killing a transgender person last year and awarded him death sentence with a fine of Rs1 million.
DECEMBER 29, 2022ItalyDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iran summons Italian ambassador over protests solidarity
DECEMBER 29, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iranian author sentenced to death
For urging peace in Israel TV interview
DECEMBER 29, 2022ItalyDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Italian PM Meloni Says Repression Of Protesters In Iran ‘Unbearable’
DECEMBER 28, 2022Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTYDR CONGO: MILITARY COURT UPHOLDS NINE DEATH SENTENCES
Eight soldiers and one civilian in the Democratic Republic of Congo's war-torn northeast have had death sentences for murder and embezzlement confirmed, court documents showed on 27 December 2022.
DECEMBER 28, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hamidreza and Mohsen Nejati executed in Rajai Shahr Prison on December 28
DECEMBER 28, 2022GuyanaDEATH PENALTYGUYANA: COURT OF APPEAL REFUSES TO DECLARE THE DEATH PENALTY UNCONSTITUTIONAL
The Court of Appeal in Guyana on 22 December 2022 overturned three death sentences and replaced them with life sentences but declined to strike down the death penalty as unconstitutional.
DECEMBER 28, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Davoud Rahmatali executed in Shiraz on December 28
645 executions since the beginning of the year
- DECEMBER 28, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unidentified man executed in Karaj on December 28
DECEMBER 28, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Davoud Yousefi and Ebrahim Ajali executed in Karaj on December 28
DECEMBER 28, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN – Italy. Italy urges Iran to stop executions and open dialogue with protesters
DECEMBER 27, 2022JordanDEATH PENALTYJORDAN: COURT RULES EXECUTION BY HANGING FOR MAN WHO KILLED ANOTHER IN 2005
The Grand Criminal Court issued on 26 December 2022 a death sentence by hanging against a man who killed his friend 17 years ago in Aqaba.
DECEMBER 27, 2022VietnamDEATH PENALTYVIETNAM: HANOI WOMAN GETS DEATH SENTENCE FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
The People’s Court in Ho Chi Minh City has sentenced a woman from Hanoi to death for trafficking 9.9 kilograms of heroin.
DECEMBER 27, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - At Least 100 Protesters Facing Execution or Death Sentences
476 people killed, including 64 minors and 34 women
- DECEMBER 26, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Keyhan Shakerpahani executed in Kashan on November 26
DECEMBER 26, 2022ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: FORMER MAYOR RECEIVES SUSPENDED DEATH SENTENCE FOR CORRUPTION
A former mayor of Hegang, a city in Northeast China's Heilongjiang province, was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve on 23 December 2022 for multiple crimes involving corruption, according to a local court.
DECEMBER 26, 2022ItalyDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iranian Chess Grandmaster Sara Khadem Competes In International Tournament Without Hijab
Arouses the admiration of the Italian Prime Minister Meloni
DECEMBER 26, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hamed Ebrahimi executed in Isfahan on December 26
DECEMBER 26, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - One of the 2 death sentences of Shakir Behrouz was reversed
A Kurdish political prisoner
DECEMBER 26, 2022ZambiaDEATH PENALTYZAMBIA ABOLISHES DEATH PENALTY
Zambia’s President Hakainde Hichilema on 23 December 2022 assented to Penal Code (Amendment) Bill 2022, abolishing the law of the death penalty in Zambia.
DECEMBER 26, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Yousef Mirzavand executed in Dezful on December 26
Mirzavand was 16 years old at the time arrest
DECEMBER 25, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Soha Etebari, 12, killed by the armed forces of the regime on December 25
DECEMBER 24, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Elias Raisi and Ayoub Rigi executed in Zahedan on December 24
DECEMBER 24, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Ghobadlou appeal against the death sentence rejected
DECEMBER 24, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hardliner Clerics Demand More Executions, Amputations
DECEMBER 23, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Nizamuddin Burhanzahi executed in Iranshahr on December 23
DECEMBER 22, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abdullah Shahozahi executed in Shiraz on December 21
DECEMBER 22, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 unidentified men executed in Shiraz on December 22
628 executions since the beginning of the year
DECEMBER 22, 2022YemenDEATH PENALTYYEMEN: HOUTHI-CONTROLLED COURT SENTENCES 16 YEMENIS TO DEATH, 13 OTHERS TO PRISON
Houthi-run Specialised Criminal Court of First Instance in Yemen’s capital of Sana’a on 7 December 2022 convicted 16 Yemenis, seven of whom were already detained, on charges of communicating with and assisting the “Saudi-Emirati aggression countries”.
DECEMBER 22, 2022MalaysiaDEATH PENALTYMALAYSIA MAY ABOLISH MANDATORY DEATH PENALTY IN FEBRUARY, MINISTER SAYS
Mulling a review of the criminal justice system in the country, Malaysia may do away with the mandatory death penalty in the coming months, a minister said on 21 December 2022.