2023

IRAN - Hengaw Organization for Human Rights releases its 2023 report

Execution of 823 Prisoners in Iran during 2023

IRAN - Nur Ahmad Ghalandarzahi executed in Shiraz on December 31

NORTH KOREA: PUBLICLY EXECUTED FOR KILLING A WOMAN WHILE TRYING TO STEAL BEANS

Hundreds of residents were forced to gather at an airfield in frigid weather to watch authorities execute a 23-year-old man by firing squad on December 19, 2023, residents in North Korea told Radio Free Asia.

INDIA: RAJASTHAN POSCO COURT AWARDS DEATH PENALTY TO RAPE, DOUBLE MURDER ACCUSED YOUTH

A Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) court in Rajasthan’s Pali district awarded the death penalty to a 22-year-old accused in a case involving rape and double murder, Hindustan Times reported on December 13, 2023.

NIGERIA: GOV. SANWO-OLU OF LAGOS STATE RELEASES 246 INMATES, COMMUTES 39 DEATH SENTENCE TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT

Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State has approved the release of 246 inmates from various correctional facilities across the state.

NO EXECUTIONS IN JAPAN IN 2023; LAST ONE WAS FOR AKIHABARA KILLER

Japan carried out no executions in 2023 for the first time in three years.

PAKISTAN: SENATE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE VOTES AGAINST PUBLIC HANGING FOR RAPISTS

Pakistan’s Senate Standing Committee on Human Rights passed a resolution on December 30, 2023 against a proposal to impose the death penalty by public hanging of capital offenders and rapists in particular.

IRAN - Abdul Shawali executed in Karaj on December 30

IRAN 2 Afghan citizens executed in Karaj on December 30

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VIETNAM: MAN GETS DEATH FOR BANK CAPER MURDER

A man who unsuccessfully tried to rob a bank in Da Nang was sentenced to death on December 28, 2023 for killing a security guard who chased him from the crime scene.

BURUNDI: PRESIDENT SAYS GAY PEOPLE SHOULD BE STONED IN STADIUMS

Burundi's President Évariste Ndayishimiye has said that homosexuals in his country "should be stoned", BBC reported on December 29, 2023.

QATAR COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCE OF 8 INDIAN NAVY VETERANS

A Qatar court has reduced sentences for eight former Indian Navy personnel involved in an alleged espionage case, India’s Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said on December 28, 2023.

IRAN - Asghar Abdullah Parikhani and Abbas Faraj Oghli executed in Meshgin Shahr

Parikhani on December 29, Oghli on December 25

IRAN - 3 men “recently” executed in Karaj

Akbar Qara Gozlu, Ehsan Hamedi + Unk.

IRAN - 4 political prisoners executed in Urmia on December 28

3 men and 1 woman: Aram Omri, Rahman Parhazou, Vafa Hanareh, and Nasim Namazi

IRAN - Hassan Rahbar executed in Gorgan on December 28

IRAN - Karim Aminikhah executed in Bandar Abbas on December 28

IRAN - Reza Eyvazi executed in Kashan on December 28

IRAN - Public execution in Najaf Abad for the murder of a police agent

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IRAN - Unnamed man executed in Yazd on December 28

IRAN - Ismaeil Ghader Magham (Barahoei) executed in Birjand on December 27

IRAN - Ramin Faghiri Executed in Hamedan on December 27

IRAN - Mansour Salamat killed under the torture on December 27

IRAN - 3 men executed in Birjand on December 27

Ismail Qadir Maqam, Ahmad Gergij, Mohammad Hissari

VIETNAM: PRESIDENT REDUCES DEATH SENTENCE TO LIFE FOR 18 PRISONERS

President Vo Van Thuong signed a decision on December 27, 2023 to reduce death penalties to life imprisonment for 18 prisoners who filed petitions for commuted sentences.

IRAN - 4 men executed in Ardabil on December 27

Yasin Khodakarami, Alireza Nejati, Jebreil Fadayi, Ali Zaman Khani

IRAN - HRANA: Annual Report on Human Rights in Iran for the year 2023

IRAN - 3 women and 1 man executed in Birjand on December 27