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JUNE 24, 2025VietnamDEATH PENALTYVIETNAM: DEATH PENALTIES HANDED TO THREE DRUG TRAFFICKERS
A court in southern Vietnam has sentenced three drug traffickers to death for smuggling and selling more than 50 kilos of heroin and synthetic drugs, state media reported on June 18, 2025.
JUNE 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Azim Mohammadi executed in Qom un June 24
JUNE 24, 2025Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: 37 ETHIOPIANS AMONG SCORES OF FOREIGN NATIONALS AT ‘IMMINENT RISK’ OF EXECUTION
At least 37 Ethiopian men are facing the death penalty in Saudi Arabia for drug-related offences, according to
JUNE 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Javad Mohammadi executed in Khorramabad on June 24
JUNE 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 1 woman, 2 men executed in Qom on June 24
JUNE 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Fereydoun Naziri and Hadi Nasri executed in Qom on June 24
JUNE 23, 2025ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: FORMER NATIONAL POLITICAL ADVISER SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR CORRUPTION
Liu Yuejin, a former national political adviser, was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve for accepting bribes of more than 121 million yuan ($16.83 million), a court in Fujian province announced on June 23, 2025.
JUNE 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad-Amin Mahdavi Shayesteh executed in Ghezel-Hesar on June 23
- JUNE 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Habib Soleimani executed in Arak on June 23
JUNE 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Concern for the fate of Ahmadreza Djalali
Doctor accused of spying for Israel
- JUNE 22, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hedayat Manshari executed in Ardabil on June 22
JUNE 22, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Majid Mosayebi executed on June 22
On charges of Espionage for Israel, hours after strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites
JUNE 22, 2025IraqDEATH PENALTYIRAQ: DEATH AND LIFE SENTENCES ISSUED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
A court in Najaf, southern Iraq, on June 22, 2025 handed down death and life sentences to four individuals convicted of drug trafficking.
JUNE 20, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Report on the first week of the Iran- Israel war
Hengaw special report
JUNE 20, 2025TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Michelle Lyons watched nearly 300 executions
JUNE 20, 2025LouisianaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Louisiana. Federal judge vacates death penalty for Todd Wessinger
JUNE 19, 2025AfghanistanDEATH PENALTYAFGHANISTAN: TALIBAN FLOG THREE IN TAKHAR AND MAIDAN WARDAK AMID ONGOING PUBLIC PUNISHMENTS
Taliban have publicly flogged three people, including a woman, in separate incidents in northern and central Afghanistan, the group’s Supreme Court announced on June 18, 2025.
JUNE 19, 2025BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPE OF STEPDAUGHTER IN KERANIGANJ
A Dhaka court has sentenced a man to death for the rape of his stepdaughter in Dhaka’s South Keraniganj four years ago.
JUNE 19, 2025TanzaniaDEATH PENALTYTanzania - Lissu, nonviolent opposition leader, faces death sentence
On summary charges of ‘high treason”
JUNE 18, 2025MalaysiaDEATH PENALTYMALAYSIA: SYABU TRAFFICKER’S DEATH SENTENCE REPLACED WITH LIFE IMPRISONMENT
A self-employed man, who received the capital punishment for trafficking in syabu, escaped the hangman’s noose after the Court of Appeal in Kota Kinabalu on June 17, 2025 substituted it with an imprisonment for life.
- JUNE 18, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men execute in Tabriz on June 18
Hadi Ahmadian, Abbas Partovi, Mohammad Shokri
JUNE 18, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Haghverdi executed in Qom on June 18
JUNE 17, 2025KenyaDEATH PENALTYKENYA: AFTER 18 YEARS IN JAIL, COURT APOLOGISES TO MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH
Lulu Adu was just 17 when he was sentenced to die in Kenya. Eighteen years later, a court finally acknowledged its mistake — and set him free, The Star reported on June 17, 2025.
JUNE 17, 2025SingaporeDEATH PENALTYSINGAPORE: DRUG TRAFFICKER, 58, AVOIDS DEATH PENALTY BY 0.01G, SENTENCED TO 31 YEARS’ JAIL
A 58-year-old man has been sentenced to 31 years’ jail in Singapore over drug trafficking offences that saw him avoid the death penalty by 0.01g, The Straits Times reported on June 12, 2025.
JUNE 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Shiraz on June 17
Teimur Pouladvand, Nezam Moradi, Mahmoud Dehghan and Ali Akbar Younesi
JUNE 16, 2025ItalyDEATH PENALTYUSA - Antonio Veronese updates us on the case of John Huggins
John Huggins, 63, White, on death row in Florida
JUNE 16, 2025Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: JOURNALIST EXECUTED AFTER SEVEN YEARS IN PRISON
A prominent Saudi journalist who was arrested in 2018 and convicted on terrorism and treason charges has been executed, the kingdom said. Activist groups maintain that the charges against him were trumped up.
- JUNE 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Esmail Fekri executed in Ghezel Hesar on June 16
On charges of espionage for Israel
JUNE 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ahmad Nazemi executed in Ahvaz on June 16
JUNE 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mahmoud Dehghan executed in Shiraz on June 16