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DECEMBER 28, 2025Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTYDEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO - Update on the situation in Congo
There is no more news of Emmanuel Ramazani Shadary, Kabila's right-hand man
DECEMBER 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Bismullah Tajik executed in Bandar Abbas on December 28
At least 85 Afghan nationals executed in Iran since the beginning of 2025
DECEMBER 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed on December 28
- DECEMBER 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 8 men executed on December 28
Ali Safar Sepahvand, Mostafa Mehrjoo, Moein Hassanzadeh, Jamshid Akbari, Jafar Najafi, Mousa Rahimi-Rad, Azizali Kolkhani + 1
DECEMBER 28, 2025AfghanistanDEATH PENALTYAFGHANISTAN: TALIBAN COURT OVERTURNS DEATH SENTENCE AGAINST TEACHER IN PAKTIKA
A Taliban court in Paktika province has overturned the death sentence against Abdul Alim Khamosh, a teacher who had been detained on charges of “insulting the prophet of islam,”
DECEMBER 28, 2025IraqDEATH PENALTYIRAQ HANDS DEATH SENTENCE TO EX-BAATH OFFICER OVER BARZANI CRIMES
Iraq’s High Criminal Court on December 28, 2025 sentenced former Baath-era security commander Shaker Ghafour Al-Douri to death after convicting him of participating in mass executions targeting Kurdish Barzani civilians.
DECEMBER 28, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Georgia. Georgia Stacey Humphreys' execution warrant expired
DECEMBER 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Younes Afshari executed in Hamedan on December 28
- DECEMBER 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ali Joveyani executed in Ardabil on December 28
- DECEMBER 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hossein Dadvar and Sajad Shokri hanged in Kashan on December 28
- DECEMBER 27, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 9 men executed on December 27
Khalil Nouri, Ahmadali Safari, Sirus Karami, Rahim Khodaparast, Milad Nejati, Abolfazl Enhesari, Ahmadreza Esfahani, Nariman Souri, Vihan Shah-Mohammadi
- DECEMBER 27, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mostafa Mehrjou and Ahmad Ali Saffari executed on December 27
- DECEMBER 27, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Jalil Nouri and Reza Hatami executed in Sari on December 27
- 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 PENALTY
IRAN - 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 PENALTY
DEMOCRATIC 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 - 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