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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 PENALTYIRAN - 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 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - The 100th Week of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” Campaign
In 55 Prisons Across Iran
- DECEMBER 22, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Supreme Court Upholds Death Sentence of Mehrab Abdollahzadeh
DECEMBER 22, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 8 men executed in various prisons on December 22
- DECEMBER 22, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammadreza Madadi and Kazem Hamidi executed in Gorgan on December 22
- DECEMBER 22, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Taher Bastani executed in Isfahan on December 22
DECEMBER 22, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Isfahan on December 22
Nariman Mohammadi, Eskandar Bakhshoudeh, Taher Bastani
DECEMBER 22, 2025IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: DEATH SENTENCE OF MAN WHO BEHEADED BROTHER COMMUTED TO 20-YEAR JAIL TERM
Making it clear that not every brutal murder warrants capital punishment, the Punjab and Haryana High Court on December 22, 2025 commuted the death sentence of Ashok Kumar
- DECEMBER 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 9 men executed in various prisons on December 21
Fariborz Ghasemi, Reza Dastar, Kazem Sourian, Vahid Pazouki, Ali Mohammad Koushki, Amir Mohammad Jadidi, Fardin Khani, Ebrahim Mashayekhi + 1
- DECEMBER 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Morad Sheghnaei and Mohammad Babrian executed in Taybad on December 21
- DECEMBER 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Rastin Karami executed in Sanandaj on December 21
DECEMBER 20, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sajjad Marmozi executed in Ahvaz on December 20
- DECEMBER 20, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Moslem Salimi executed in Hamedan on December 20
- DECEMBER 20, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Behzad Hosseini-Rad executed in Kermanshah on December 20
- DECEMBER 20, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Kian Papi executed in Aligudarz on December 20
- DECEMBER 20, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Yashar Tehrani-Moqaddam executed in Karaj on December 20
- DECEMBER 20, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad-Javad Kalani executed in Nahavand on December 20
- DECEMBER 20, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hesam Nozari executed in Ardabil on December 20
- DECEMBER 20, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Yarhossein Hassanvand executed in Khorramabad on December 20
- DECEMBER 20, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unidentified man executed in Dezful on December 20