2022

IRAN - Hatem Ozdemir sentenced to death

Kurdish political prisoner

USA - The latest edition of "Death Row USA" Drusa has been published

State Death Rows Drop Below 2,400 For First Time Since 1990

IRAN - A man and woman executed on March 14

In Shiraz Central Prison

UAE: UMM AL QUWAIN COURT SENTENCES AFRICAN MAN TO DEATH FOR HIS ROOMMATE'S MURDER

An African man has been sentenced to death for murdering his roommate by stabbing him in the chest and heart, Khaleej Times reported on 13 March 2022.

SAUDI ARABIA: 81 MEN EXECUTED IN ONE DAY, THE BIGGEST MASS EXECUTION IN DECADES

Saudi Arabia executed 81 men on 12 March 2022, including seven Yemenis and one Syrian, for terrorism and other offenses including holding “deviant beliefs,” authorities said, in the biggest mass execution in decades.

IRAN - Ebrahim Nasirkhah executed in Urmia Prison on March 14

EGYPT: SEVEN EXECUTED OVER ISLAMIST ATTACKS THAT KILLED POLICEMEN

Egyptian authorities executed seven men on 9 and 10 March 2022 in connection with “politically motivated” cases, and after a legal process marred by torture and lack of evidence, a rights group has told Middle East Eye.

BELARUS: UN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE CONDEMNS EXECUTION

The UN Human Rights Committee on 10 March 2022 condemned Belarus for its execution of Victor Pavlov, whose petition was still being examined by the Committee.

IRAN - Political prisoner Firooz Moosa-Lou sentenced to death

For membership in the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK)

IRAN - Hafizollah Rakhshani executed in Zahedan Prison on March 13

IRAN - 4 men executed in Shiraz prison on March 13

Jamshid Fadaei, Hossein Mehrabani, and 2 not identified

IRAN - 2 men executed in Shiraz Central Prison on March 13

One identified as Najaf Anjom

IRAN - Alam Yarahmedzehi executed in Khash prison on March 12

(Also Yar-Ahmadzehi)

BANGLADESH: TWO EXECUTED OVER MURDER OF FREEDOM FIGHTER AT CUMILLA CENTRAL JAIL

Two convicted of the 2003 murder of Chattogram Railway official and freedom fighter Shafiuddin Ahmed, were executed at Cumilla Central Jail on 8 March 2022 night.

IRAN - Sweden renunciates to try two suspected Iranian secret agents

IRAN - Shahab … executed at Shiraz Central Prison on March 10

Surname not known

IRAN - Nizam Ali Mirzaei executed in Miandoab Prison on March 10

IRAN - Sepideh Qoliyan is gravely ill

The prisoner of conscience needs of urgent medical care

IRAN - 4 men executed at Shiraz Central Prison on March 9

One identified by his surname, Salarzehi

USA - Idaho. HB 658 to shield lethal injection drug providers fails to advance out of Senate Judiciary Committee

CHINA: CHIEF JUSTICE CALLS FOR DEATH PENALTY FOR ‘CRUEL TREATMENT’ OF WOMEN, CHILDREN AND THE ELDERLY

China’s chief justice has called for the death penalty for serious offences involving “cruel treatment” of women, children and the elderly, in an apparent response to public fury over recently exposed human trafficking cases.

INDIA: MAN GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR MURDER, RAPE OF WOMAN AND DAUGHTER IN GUJARAT

A court in Gujarat on 7 March 2022 sentenced a man to death for raping and murdering a woman and her 11-year-old daughter in 2018, a case that had triggered national outrage. His accomplice was given life imprisonment on the charge of murder.

TUNISIA: 16 SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER 2016 ATTACKS

A Tunisian court sentenced 16 people to death in the first judgments against militants involved in 2016 attacks near the Libyan border that left scores dead, media reported on 5 March 2022.

USA - Tennessee. DA Concedes Byron Black Is Intellectually Disabled

Thus Ineligible for Execution

IRAN - 17 Women Executed in 2021

2 Hanged by Own Children

EGYPT: 4 MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR 2014 MURDER OF 2 POLICEMEN

A Sharqiya criminal court handed on 3 March 2022 death sentences against four men and handed 7-15 jail terms to 26 others for murdering two policemen and attempting to murder other security personnel in 2014.

YEMEN: APPEALS COURT UPHOLDS DEATH PENALTY OF KERALA NURSE

An Appeals Court in Yemen on 7 March 2022 upheld death penalty for Keralite nurse Nimisha Priya (33) who is charged with murder of a Yemen youth back in 2017, a killing she maintains was accidental and at end of mental torture and business fraud on part o

RUSSIAN MORATORIUM ON DEATH PENALTY NOT CONNECTED TO RUSSIA'S MEMBERSHIP IN COUNCIL OF EUROPE, IT HAS NO DEFINITE TERM - FEDERATION COUNCIL COMMITTEE HEAD

The moratorium on the death penalty in Russia has no definite term and is not connected to Russia's membership in the Council of Europe, Andrei Klishas, the head of the Federation Council Constitutional Legislation and State-Building Committee, said on 2

EGYPT: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING HIS CHILDREN DIES IN PRISON

An Egyptian man, who was sentenced to death for killing his three children with help of his two wives, died in prison before the death penalty could be carried out, Gulf News reported on 3 March 2022, citing local media.

IRAN - Human rights defender Narges Mohammadi has to return to prison tomorrow (March 8).

After a brief furlough following heart surgery