Chronological archive
December 2022
The 111 news items published by Hands Off Cain in December 2022, in chronological order.
MALI: 46 IVORIAN SOLDIERS SENTENCED TO 20 YEARS IN PRISON; DEATH IN ABSENTIA GIVEN TO 3
Forty-six Ivorian soldiers in Mali were each sentenced on 30 December 2022 to 20 years in prison by a Malian court for attacking the security of the nation.
DECEMBER 30, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Stories of 5 men sentenced to death for alleged crimes linked to anti-regime protests
Hamid Ghare-Hasanlou, Mohammad Mehdi Karami, Hossein Mohammadi, Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini, Reza Arya.
DECEMBER 29, 2022PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING TRANSGENDER PERSON IN CHARSADDA
A district and sessions judge in Charsadda on 23 December 2022 convicted a man for killing a transgender person last year and awarded him death sentence with a fine of Rs1 million.
DECEMBER 29, 2022ItalyDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iran summons Italian ambassador over protests solidarity
DECEMBER 29, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iranian author sentenced to death
For urging peace in Israel TV interview
DECEMBER 29, 2022ItalyDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Italian PM Meloni Says Repression Of Protesters In Iran ‘Unbearable’
DECEMBER 28, 2022Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTYDR CONGO: MILITARY COURT UPHOLDS NINE DEATH SENTENCES
Eight soldiers and one civilian in the Democratic Republic of Congo's war-torn northeast have had death sentences for murder and embezzlement confirmed, court documents showed on 27 December 2022.
DECEMBER 28, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hamidreza and Mohsen Nejati executed in Rajai Shahr Prison on December 28
DECEMBER 28, 2022GuyanaDEATH PENALTYGUYANA: COURT OF APPEAL REFUSES TO DECLARE THE DEATH PENALTY UNCONSTITUTIONAL
The Court of Appeal in Guyana on 22 December 2022 overturned three death sentences and replaced them with life sentences but declined to strike down the death penalty as unconstitutional.
DECEMBER 28, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Davoud Rahmatali executed in Shiraz on December 28
645 executions since the beginning of the year
- DECEMBER 28, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unidentified man executed in Karaj on December 28
DECEMBER 28, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Davoud Yousefi and Ebrahim Ajali executed in Karaj on December 28
DECEMBER 28, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN – Italy. Italy urges Iran to stop executions and open dialogue with protesters
DECEMBER 27, 2022JordanDEATH PENALTYJORDAN: COURT RULES EXECUTION BY HANGING FOR MAN WHO KILLED ANOTHER IN 2005
The Grand Criminal Court issued on 26 December 2022 a death sentence by hanging against a man who killed his friend 17 years ago in Aqaba.
DECEMBER 27, 2022VietnamDEATH PENALTYVIETNAM: HANOI WOMAN GETS DEATH SENTENCE FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
The People’s Court in Ho Chi Minh City has sentenced a woman from Hanoi to death for trafficking 9.9 kilograms of heroin.
DECEMBER 27, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - At Least 100 Protesters Facing Execution or Death Sentences
476 people killed, including 64 minors and 34 women
- DECEMBER 26, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Keyhan Shakerpahani executed in Kashan on November 26
DECEMBER 26, 2022ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: FORMER MAYOR RECEIVES SUSPENDED DEATH SENTENCE FOR CORRUPTION
A former mayor of Hegang, a city in Northeast China's Heilongjiang province, was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve on 23 December 2022 for multiple crimes involving corruption, according to a local court.
DECEMBER 26, 2022ItalyDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iranian Chess Grandmaster Sara Khadem Competes In International Tournament Without Hijab
Arouses the admiration of the Italian Prime Minister Meloni
DECEMBER 26, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hamed Ebrahimi executed in Isfahan on December 26
DECEMBER 26, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - One of the 2 death sentences of Shakir Behrouz was reversed
A Kurdish political prisoner
DECEMBER 26, 2022ZambiaDEATH PENALTYZAMBIA ABOLISHES DEATH PENALTY
Zambia’s President Hakainde Hichilema on 23 December 2022 assented to Penal Code (Amendment) Bill 2022, abolishing the law of the death penalty in Zambia.
DECEMBER 26, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Yousef Mirzavand executed in Dezful on December 26
Mirzavand was 16 years old at the time arrest
DECEMBER 25, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Soha Etebari, 12, killed by the armed forces of the regime on December 25
DECEMBER 24, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Elias Raisi and Ayoub Rigi executed in Zahedan on December 24
DECEMBER 24, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Ghobadlou appeal against the death sentence rejected
DECEMBER 24, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hardliner Clerics Demand More Executions, Amputations
DECEMBER 23, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Nizamuddin Burhanzahi executed in Iranshahr on December 23
DECEMBER 22, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abdullah Shahozahi executed in Shiraz on December 21
DECEMBER 22, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 unidentified men executed in Shiraz on December 22
628 executions since the beginning of the year
DECEMBER 22, 2022YemenDEATH PENALTYYEMEN: HOUTHI-CONTROLLED COURT SENTENCES 16 YEMENIS TO DEATH, 13 OTHERS TO PRISON
Houthi-run Specialised Criminal Court of First Instance in Yemen’s capital of Sana’a on 7 December 2022 convicted 16 Yemenis, seven of whom were already detained, on charges of communicating with and assisting the “Saudi-Emirati aggression countries”.
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DECEMBER 22, 2022MalaysiaDEATH PENALTYMALAYSIA MAY ABOLISH MANDATORY DEATH PENALTY IN FEBRUARY, MINISTER SAYS
Mulling a review of the criminal justice system in the country, Malaysia may do away with the mandatory death penalty in the coming months, a minister said on 21 December 2022.
DECEMBER 21, 2022IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: TWO SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPING, KILLING WOMAN
A court in Haryana’s Sonipat on 19 December 2021 sentenced two men to death for raping and killing a woman five years ago.
DECEMBER 21, 2022PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ABOLISHES DEATH PENALTY FOR DRUG DEALERS
The National Assembly on 20 December 2022 approved “The Control of Narcotics Substance (Amendment) Bill, 2022,” abolishing death sentence for illicit trafficking of narcotics and psychotropic drugs.
DECEMBER 21, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hasan Firouzi, arrested during the protests, is in danger of execution
DECEMBER 21, 2022NevadaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Nevada. Governor Sisolak can not empty death row
DECEMBER 20, 2022GambiaDEATH PENALTYGAMBIA: DRIVER SENTENCED TO DEATH IN UPPER RIVER REGION
Justice Landing M. Sanneh, the presiding Judge of the High Court in Basse, in the Upper River Region (URR) has sentenced Bakary Jallow, a driver by profession to death for reportedly killing one Alieu Sanyang, The Point reported on 20 December 2022.
DECEMBER 20, 2022LibyaDEATH PENALTYLIBYA: 17 FORMER IS MEMBERS SENTENCED TO DEATH
A Libyan court sentenced 17 former members of the Islamic State group to death, a statement from the country’s Tripoli-based top prosecutor said on 19 December 2022.
- DECEMBER 20, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Karaj on December 20
Mehdi Kamrani Far + 2 unknown
- DECEMBER 19, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Riot at Karaj Penitentiary at least one prisoner killed
Mohsen Mansouri, and 17 transferred to solitary confinement in preparation for their executions
- DECEMBER 19, 2022AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
AFGHANISTAN: TALIBAN OFFICIAL PARDONS HIS FATHER'S MURDERER
A senior Afghan official has pardoned a man sentenced to death for murdering the politician's father, a court said on 18 December 2022, days after Taliban authorities carried out the first public execution since the Islamists seized power.
DECEMBER 19, 2022LebanonDEATH PENALTYLEBANON: DEATH SENTENCE UPHELD FOR KILLER OF BRITISH WOMAN
A Lebanese court has upheld the death sentence for an Uber driver convicted of killing a British woman who worked for the U.K. Embassy in Beirut five years ago, the embassy said on December 16, 2022.
DECEMBER 18, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Akbari + unknown executed in Sari on December 18
DECEMBER 18, 2022United NationsDEATH PENALTYUN GENERAL ASSEMBLY APPROVES ‘MORATORIUM ON THE USE OF THE DEATH PENALTY’ RESOLUTION
125 votes in favour (3 more than in 2020), 37 against (one less than in 2020) and 22 abstentions (there were 24 in 2020).
DECEMBER 18, 2022SudanDEATH PENALTYSUDAN: WOMAN SENTENCED TO STONING DEATH WILL GO TO JAIL INSTEAD
A Sudanese woman charged with adultery has had her life spared and will instead spend six months behind bars after she admitted to kissing a man.
DECEMBER 18, 2022NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: KANO CLERIC SHEIKH KABARA SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR BLASPHEMY
An Islamic cleric, Sheikh Abduljabbar Kabara, was on 15 December 2022 sentenced to death by hanging by an Upper Shari’a Court sitting at Kofar Kudu in Kano State for alleged blasphemy.
DECEMBER 17, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Qasim Salarzahi and Aziz Gargij executed on December 17
619 executions in 2022
DECEMBER 17, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Authorities arrested Taraneh Alidoosti
one of the country’s most famous actresses on charges of spreading falsehoods about protests
DECEMBER 16, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sonia Sharifi released on bail
Young girl accused of ‘enmity against God’
DECEMBER 16, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iran Releases Teen After Mother’s Interview Goes Viral On Social Media
15-year-old Amirhossein Rahimi
DECEMBER 16, 2022United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA DPIC 2022 Year End Report
22 death sentences and 18 executions in 2022
DECEMBER 16, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Tehran Doctor Tortured And Killed For Treating Wounded Protesters
Aida Rostami, also Ayda Rostami
DECEMBER 15, 2022SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: MILITARY COURT SENTENCES AL-SHABAAB CONVICT TO DEATH
A military court in Mogadishu on 12 December 2022 sentenced a suspected al-Shabaab member to death amid the government stepped up operation against the group in south-central Somalia.
DECEMBER 15, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sonia Sharifi, 17, charged with ‘waging war on God’
The young protester is at risk of death sentence
- DECEMBER 15, 2022PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH ON TWO COUNTS IN RAPE-CUM-DOUBLE MURDER CASE
A Rawalpindi district and sessions court on 29 November 2022 handed down death penalty on two counts to an accused involved in a rape-cum-double murder case.
DECEMBER 15, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Yousef Mirza-Beigi executed in Qazvin on 15 December
- DECEMBER 15, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ahmad Shariati executed in Kerman “in mid December”
The news reached the NGOs only on January 27, 2023.
DECEMBER 15, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammadali Seyedi executed in Qazvin on December 15
DECEMBER 15, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abolfazl Heidarzadeh executed in Zanjan on December 15
617 executions since the beginning of the year
DECEMBER 15, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hassan Amini and Amir Abbasi executed in Rasht on December 15
- DECEMBER 14, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Reza Tajik executed in Karaj Central Prison on December 14
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DECEMBER 14, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Five unidentified men executed in Rajai-Shahr Prison on December 14
DECEMBER 14, 2022MississippiDEATH PENALTYUSA - Mississippi. Thomas Edwin Loden, 58, White, was executed
DECEMBER 14, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehdi Khoshbakht and Hamed Nobakht executed in Hamadan on December 14
DECEMBER 14, 2022Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTYMYANMAR: THREE PRISONERS SENTENCED TO DEATH
A Myanmar’s military court in June 2022 sentenced Wai Zin Yan, Thu Htoo Aung, and Min Htet Thar to death under section 302 of the penal code for an incident.
DECEMBER 14, 2022TaiwanDEATH PENALTYTAIWAN: MAN RECEIVES DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING CLERK WHO ASKED HIM TO MASK UP
A paper sculpture artist was handed the death penalty by Taoyuan District Court on 13 December 2022 for stabbing to death a convenience store clerk who asked him to wear a mask.
- DECEMBER 14, 2022KuwaitDEATH PENALTY
KUWAIT: MAN WHO MURDERED WOMAN IN FRONT OF HER DAUGHTER SENTENCED TO DEATH
A stalker who tried to kidnap a woman to force her to marry him and then murdered her in front of her daughter and niece when she refused to go with him has been sentenced to death by hanging in Kuwait, Mirror reported on 14 December 2022.
DECEMBER 14, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN UN removes Iran from women's rights body
UNCSW, over protest crackdown
DECEMBER 13, 2022EthiopiaDEATH PENALTYETHIOPIA: FEDERAL POLICE OFFICER SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER OF SOMALI REGION MP
An Ethiopian federal police officer was sentenced to death on 12 December 2022 by a military court in Jigjiga for the shooting death of Somali region MP Juweria Subcis in late October.
DECEMBER 13, 2022OregonDEATH PENALTYUSA - Oregon. Gov. Kate Brown commuted the sentences of all 17 people on death row
DECEMBER 13, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Five Protestors Awaiting Execution in Karaj
Mohammad-Mehdi Karami, Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini, Hamid Ghara-Hasanlu and Hossein Mohammadi
- DECEMBER 13, 2022NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
NIGERIA: THREE SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER RAPE, MURDER OF UNILORIN STUDENT
Justice Ibrahim Yusuf of Kwara State High Court on 13 December 2022 sentenced three persons to death by hanging over the rape and murder of a 300-level undergraduate of the University of Ilorin (UNILORIN), Omowumi Olajide.
DECEMBER 12, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Vahid Narouei executed in Shiraz on December 12
DECEMBER 12, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Isa Narouei executed in Zahedan on December 12
DECEMBER 12, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 5 men executed in Arak on December 12
Mohammad Imani, Ehsan Naseri, Mostafa Kashi + 2 unk
DECEMBER 12, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Payam Nourollahi Executed in Gorgan on December 12
604 executions since the beginning of the year
- DECEMBER 12, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Abbas Hosseini and Ali Seyyedkhani executed in Qazvin on December 12
DECEMBER 12, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Asghar Alizadeh and Ebrahim Broujerdi executed in Khorramabad on December 12
DECEMBER 12, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Protester Majidreza Rahnavard in Mashhad on December 12
DECEMBER 11, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hassan Ghasemizadeh executed in Taybad on December 11
- DECEMBER 10, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 4 Baloch prisoners executed on December 10
Ehsan Bakhtiari, Mostafa Qavi Panjeh, Muslim … and Abdul Wase Brahui
DECEMBER 10, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iran supreme leader’s niece sentenced to 3 years for supporting protests
Farideh Moradkhani
DECEMBER 9, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Saman Yasin, the rapper, sentenced to death.
DECEMBER 9, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN- Iran Human Rights Monitor Annual Report 2022
- DECEMBER 8, 2022AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
TALIBAN CARRY OUT 1ST PUBLIC EXECUTION SINCE AFGHAN TAKEOVER
The Taliban authorities on 7 December 2022 executed an Afghan convicted of killing another man, the first public execution since the former insurgents took over Afghanistan last year.
DECEMBER 8, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hamid Ghara-Hasanlu, a doctor, sentenced to death in protests
DECEMBER 8, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Protester Mohsen Shekari executed this morning
DECEMBER 8, 2022OhioDEATH PENALTYUSA - Ohio. Gregory Esparza’s death sentence overturned
- DECEMBER 8, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Shayan Hassanpour (Hassanzadeh) executed in Maku on December 8
DECEMBER 7, 2022KuwaitDEATH PENALTYKUWAIT: 2 EXPATS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING WIVES
Two expatriate men, one of them still at large, have been sentenced to death by hanging in Kuwait for murdering their wives, a Kuwaiti newspaper reported.
- DECEMBER 7, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - At least 458 people killed in the ongoing nationwide protests
Including 63 children and 29 women
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DECEMBER 7, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unidentified man executed in Qom on December 7
586 executions since the beginning of 2022
- DECEMBER 7, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Baratali Sheikhalizadeh executed in Karaj on December 7
DECEMBER 7, 2022VietnamDEATH PENALTYVIETNAM: 3 MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR TRANSPORTING 3KG OF METH
A court in the central Quang Tri Province sentenced three men to death on 29 November 2022 for sending three kilograms of methamphetamine through an express delivery company.
DECEMBER 6, 2022TanzaniaDEATH PENALTYTANZANIA: ELEVEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING CONSERVATIONIST
A court in Tanzania on 2 December 2022 sentenced 11 people to death over the 2017 murder of renowned anti-poaching activist Wayne Lotter.
DECEMBER 6, 2022Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: SIX MORE POLITICAL DISSIDENTS SENTENCED TO DEATH
A human rights organization says the Saudi judiciary has sentenced six more prisoners of conscience to death, Press TV’s website reported on 5 December 2022.
DECEMBER 5, 2022Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTYMYANMAR: JUNTA SENTENCES SEVEN STUDENTS TO DEATH
Myanmar’s junta on 30 November 2022 handed down death sentences to seven Dagon University students in Yangon who took part in anti-regime protests.
DECEMBER 5, 2022North KoreaDEATH PENALTYNORTH KOREA: THREE TEENAGERS PUBLICLY EXECUTED
North Korea has publicly executed three teenagers by firing squad – two for watching and distributing South Korean movies and one for murdering his stepmother – two sources who witnessed it told Radio Free Asia.
DECEMBER 5, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Nasser Omarzahi and Alireza Naroouie executed in Zahedan on December 5
- DECEMBER 5, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Death sentences for protesters
DECEMBER 5, 2022NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: CULTIST SENTENCED TO DEATH BY HANGING IN EKITI
An Ekiti State High Court, sitting in Ado Ekiti, has sentenced one Segun Iwaetan, to death by hanging for being a cultist and raping a 20-year-old virgin, Daily Post reported on 5 December 2022.
DECEMBER 4, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Four men executed for 'intelligence cooperation' with Israel
DECEMBER 4, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Heydar Hassani Maram executed in Yasui on December 4
DECEMBER 4, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Gholam Rasoul Mazarzehi and Anoushirvan Omarzehi executed in Zahedan on December 4
DECEMBER 3, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Woman, Mouloud Molazadeh, executed in Isfahan on December 3
DECEMBER 3, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Zakaria Rigi and Hojjat Saif Panah executed in Shiraz on December 3
DECEMBER 2, 2022BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: DEATH-ROW CONVICT HANGED AT KASHIMPUR JAIL
A death-row convict was hanged on 30 November 2022 at Kashimpur Central Jail-2 in a case filed for the murder of freedom fighter Gias Uddin in Narayanganj.
DECEMBER 2, 2022MississippiDEATH PENALTYUSA - Mississippi. Martez Abram sentenced to death
- DECEMBER 1, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Majid Mehdipour and Massoud Efati executed in Rasht on December 1
DECEMBER 1, 2022BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: CONDEMNED CONVICT EXECUTED IN RAJSHAHI JAIL
A condemned convicted was executed in Rajshahi Central jail on 30 November 2022 night, official sources said.
DECEMBER 1, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Amanullah Rakhshani executed in Sabzevar on December 1
565 executions since the beginning of the year