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APRIL 9, 2025KuwaitDEATH PENALTYKUWAIT: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING MOTHER-IN-LAW WITH KALASHNIKOV
The Court of Cassation on April 8, 2025 upheld the verdict issued by the Court of Appeals which sentenced a 40-year-old Kuwaiti citizen to death for murdering his mother-in-law using a Kalashnikov rifle in Wafra.
APRIL 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unidentified man executed in Karaj (Ghezel Hesar) on April 9th
APRIL 9, 2025IraqDEATH PENALTYIRAQ: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
The Central Criminal Court on April 8, 2025 sentenced a drug dealer to death for the crime of trafficking in narcotic substances.
- APRIL 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Habib Aghaei executed in Qom on April 9
- APRIL 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Behrouz Shirmohammadli executed in Gonbad-e Kavus on April 9
APRIL 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iman Salimi executed in Borazjan on April 9
- APRIL 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Alireza Seifi executed in Shiraz on April 9
APRIL 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 7 Men Hanged in Karaj (Ghezel Hesar) on April 9
Sajad Akbari, Bahram Hodavand Khani, Salar Amir Jalali, Abolfazl Karimi, Mehdi Salan and two unidentified men. Hengaw (and HoC) already reported the execution of 4 of them
APRIL 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ebrahim Memari Hanged in Ahvaz on April 9
- APRIL 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 2 more men executed in Karaj (Ghezel Hesar) an April 9
Meysam Veysi and Shir-Mohammad Nazarollah
APRIL 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Seifollah Nasiri executed Tabriz on 9 April
APRIL 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Shamseddin Fazli Hanged in Tabriz on April 9
- APRIL 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Amir Ahmad Sanai (Mazarehei) and Mohammadreza Damideh executed in Mashhad on April 8
- APRIL 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 2 Women and 3 Men executed in Mashhad on April 8
2 Unk women and Mohammadreza Damideh, Amirahmad Sanayi, Sajad Barahouyi
APRIL 8, 2025FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida - Michael Tanzi, 48, White, was executed
APRIL 8, 2025IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: TELANGANA HC UPHOLDS FIVE DEATH SENTENCES IN DILSUKHNAGAR BLASTS CASE
The Telangana high court on April 8, 2025 upheld the death sentence awarded to five Indian Mujahideen operatives in the 2013 Dilsukhnagar blasts case, dismissing their appeal challenging the punishment.
APRIL 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Five Political Prisoners Executed in Mashhad on April 8
Farhad Shakeri, Abdolhakim Azim Gorgij, Abdolrahman Gorgij, Taj Mohammad Khormali, and Malek-Ali Fadaie-Nasab
APRIL 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 unidentified women were executed on 8 April in Mashhad prison
IHR previously wrote of 2
- APRIL 7, 2025MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
TWO YEARS AFTER ABOLISHING THE MANDATORY DEATH PENALTY, DATA SHOWS MALAYSIA MAY BE MOVING ON FOR GOOD
Within two years year of the Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim administration abolishing the mandatory death penalty, the number of death row inmates has plunged by nearly 90 per cent
- APRIL 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Shahram Goudarzi and Taher Shaabani executed in Aligudarz on April 7
APRIL 7, 2025TaiwanDEATH PENALTYTAIWAN: CONSTITUTIONAL COURT REJECTS EXECUTED MURDERER'S APPEAL
The Constitutional Court on April 7, 2025 dismissed an appeal filed by double murderer Huang Lin-kai before his execution, stating it had no jurisdiction over the case.
APRIL 7, 2025ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: POSTGRADUATE STUDENT SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR POISONING ROOMMATES
Zhou Liren, a postgraduate student at Xiangtan University in Hunan province, was sentenced to death and life-long deprivation of political rights on April 7, 2025 for poisoning his two roommates' food, killing one of them, according to the Xiangtan Interm
- APRIL 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hamid Abdouli executed in Dezful on April 7
APRIL 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Seyed Taha Hosseini executed in Bukan on April 7
- APRIL 6, 2025ZambiaDEATH PENALTY
ZAMBIA COMMITTED TO IRREVERSIBLE ABOLITION OF THE DEATH PENALTY FOR ALL CRIMES
The Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR entered into force for Zambia on 19 March 2025, three months after date of deposition of the accession instruments.
- APRIL 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Samir Ghasemi executed in Qom on April 6
APRIL 6, 2025PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: MUSLIM GETS DEATH SENTENCE FOR MURDERING CHRISTIAN MAN
A judge in Pakistan on March 27, 2025 sentenced to death a Muslim who murdered a 20-year-old Christian in the presence of his family members, sources said.
APRIL 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Kurdish political prisoner Pakhshan Azizi is at imminent risk of execution
After her second appeal was rejected by the Supreme Court
- APRIL 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Sajad Farahani executed in Arak on April 6
APRIL 5, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Malazadeh executed in Zanjan on April 5