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- DECEMBER 26, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Abdulrahman Nahtani executed in Shiraz on November 26
DECEMBER 26, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Karim Khojasteh Sentenced to Death for Hanging a Protest Banner
DECEMBER 26, 2025ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING HIS CHILDREN
A man was sentenced to death for tricking his two children into drinking pesticide, causing their deaths, the Zunyi Intermediate People's Court in Guizhou province said on December 26, 2025.
DECEMBER 25, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - On 24 December, Iran reached and exceeded 2100 hangings since the beginning of 2025
DECEMBER 25, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in various prisons on December 25
Amin Safari, Majid Khani, Heshmat Beigi
DECEMBER 25, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Murad Karimi-Galeh and Nowruz Khalafi executed in Shushtar on December 25
DECEMBER 24, 2025AfghanistanDEATH PENALTYAFGHANISTAN: TALIBAN PUBLICLY FLOGS NINE PEOPLE, INCLUDING FOUR WOMEN, IN BAMYAN AND KAPISA
The Taliban publicly flogged nine people, including four women, in Bamyan and Kapisa provinces on charges of “illicit relationships” and “adultery,” the group’s supreme court announced
DECEMBER 24, 2025Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTYDEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO - In defence of Joseph Kabila
Who democratically ruled Congo for 17 years, and now is sentenced to death
DECEMBER 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Zahra Khanzadeh and Amir Azizi executed in Mashhad on December 24
64th woman in 2025
DECEMBER 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Yaghoub Karimpour sentenced to death for “espionage for Israel"
- DECEMBER 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 12 men executed in various prisons on December 24
Masoud Moradi, Yaghoob Masoumi, Mohammad-Mehdi Adavi, Ebrahim Alizadeh, Mehdi Rajabali Zadeh, Nouraddin Panahi, Mohammad Nourian, Khodakaram Safapour, Nemat Khosravi, Noushad Kazemian, Nazir ... and Ayoub Dehqani
- DECEMBER 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 4 men executed in various prisons on December 24
Yarmohammad Saljouqi, Jahanshah Rashidian, Behrouz Sheikhi, … Rastegari
- DECEMBER 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mostafa Keifari and Sohrab Majidi executed on December 24
20 executions on December 24
DECEMBER 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Eskandar Bakhshoudeh executed in Isfahan on December 24
- DECEMBER 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - The 100th Week of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” Campaign
In 55 Prisons Across Iran
- DECEMBER 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Several people with Swedish-Iranian citizenship have been taken hostage by the Ministry of Intelligence
Report from Maryam Pezeshki, an Iranian artist and a friend of Hands off Cain
DECEMBER 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Senior Military Official: 2,000 Arrested on Espionage Charges
DECEMBER 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mahdieh Keyhani executed in Hamedan on December 23
DECEMBER 23, 2025AfghanistanDEATH PENALTYAFGHANISTAN: TALIBAN PUBLICLY FLOGS MAN AND WOMAN IN NANGARHAR FOR ‘ILLICIT RELATIONSHIP’
The Taliban publicly flogged a man and a woman in eastern Nangarhar province on December 10, 2025 after they were convicted of engaging in an “illicit relationship,” the group’s supreme court announced.
DECEMBER 23, 2025NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: S’COURT UPHOLDS MARYAM SANDA’S DEATH SENTENCE, OVERRULES TINUBU’S CLEMENCY
The Supreme Court on December 12, 2025 upheld the death sentence imposed on Maryam Sanda, daughter-in-law of a former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, over the killing of her husband, Bilyamin Bello.
DECEMBER 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - The execution of Javad Vafaei has been suspended
Political prisoner
- DECEMBER 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 9 men executed in various prisons on December 23
Karim Yousefi, Saman Barzegar, Yazdan Jozipour, Safarali Sadeghi, Nejat Yari, Manouchehr Mahaki, Houshang Amiri, Qanbar Farhadi, Shirzad Chamani
- DECEMBER 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 6 men executed in various prisons on December 23
Sepehr Moradi, Pejman Saeedi, + 4.
DECEMBER 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 400 influential women urge to halt execution of Zahra Tabari
DECEMBER 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Yaser Ghoreishi and Mohammadreza Nikkhah executed in Ghaemshahr on December 23
DECEMBER 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 9 men executed in various prisons on December 23
Mohammad Hassan Sharafi, Emad Asaf, Afshin Tusi, Habib Amouri, Naser Jannatpour, Rastin Karami, Jalal Taheri, Milad Norouzi, Yadollah Almasi
DECEMBER 23, 2025NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: ADAMAWA GOVERNOR PARDONS FARMER SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING HERDER
Adamawa State Governor Ahmadu Fintiri on December 23, 2025 granted a full pardon to Sunday Jackson, a farmer who was sentenced to death in 2019 for killing a herder during a confrontation on his farmland.
DECEMBER 23, 2025Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: THREE CITIZENS EXECUTED IN A SINGLE DAY
Saudi authorities on December 23, 2025 carried out the execution of three detainees from the eastern province of Qatif, a move that has drawn criticism from rights groups and opposition figures.
DECEMBER 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Qazvin on December 23
Mohammadjafar Babaei, Asghar Tavakoli, Ebrahim Hakimi
- DECEMBER 22, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Supreme Court Upholds Death Sentence of Mehrab Abdollahzadeh