2024

May 20, 2024 . United Kingdom. Assange wins right to challenge US extradition

IRAN - Dissident Expresses Joy Amid Mourning for President Raisi

Saeed Afkari, brother of the executed wrestler Navid Afkari

USA - Death Row USA Fall 2023 Report

As of October 1, 2023: Continued Decline of Death Row Population

IRAN - Raisi's death does not mean the closure of the case on his crimes

Ebrahim Raisi, the president of the Islamic Republic and a member of the "Death Committee"

SOMALIA: MILITARY COURT RELEASES SIX MOROCCANS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR REPATRIATION

A military court in Somalia has released the six Moroccan nationals who were recently sentenced to death by a military court in northern Somalia in late February.

IRAN - NCRI: Raisi’s Death Delivers Strategic Blow to Khamenei

Sparking Crises and Youth Rebellion in Iran

USA - Alabama. District Attorney Files Amicus Brief in Support of Toforest Johnson

IRAQ: NEARLY 100 DEATH SENTENCES, LIFE SENTENCES IN DRUG TRAFFICKING CRACKDOWN

Nearly 100 individuals – both Iraqi citizens and foreign nationals – were sentenced to death or life imprisonment on drug trafficking charges between 2023 and 2024, a spokesperson to the Interior Ministry said on May 15, 2024.

SAUDI ARABIA: SHIITE MAN EXECUTED FOR THREATENING NATIONAL SECURITY

Saudi Arabia on May 13, 2024 executed a shiite man for threatening national security by financing terrorism and associating with terrorist elements.

IRAN - Fardin Musazadeh and Mehdi Khadem executed in Ardebil on May 19

IRAN - Hatem Ozdemir sentenced to death once again

Kurdish Political Prisoner

IRAN - 4 men executed in Shiraz on May 19

Mojtaba Jouyandeh, Mostafa Aghaei, Nader Ghorbani + unidentified Afghan

IRAN - Fatemeh Abdollahi, a woman, executed in Neyshabur on May 18

10th woman executed in Iran in 2024

IRAN - 1 woman, 5 men executed in Urmia on May 18

Parvin Mousavi, Mansour Naseri, Parviz Qasemi, Yousef Saeedi, Ramin Lavandipour, and 'Jabali'

IRAN - Asghar Hajizadeh and Kaveh Bashangeh executed in Salmas on May 18

IRAN - Ramin Saadat executed in Miandoab on May 18

Arrested at the age of 17

IRAN - 25 Kurdish executed in May

IRAN - Yaser Abdollahi executed in Isfahan on May 18

IRAN - 1 more xecuted in Ardabil on May 18

Hatef Sha'abani

IRAN - Young Jewish man at risk of execution

Arvin Ghahremani

NIGERIA: SHARIA COURT SENTENCES BAUCHI MAN TO DEATH BY STONING FOR HOMOSEXUALITY

A middle-aged man, Abdullahi Sani from Unguwar Makara Huta, on May 10, 2024 was sentenced to death by stoning by a Sharia Court in Ningi, the headquarters of Ningi Local Government Area of Bauchi State, for alleged homosexuality.

BANGLADESH: HIGH COURT LIMITS SOLITARY FOR DEATH ROW INMATES

A Bangladesh court ruled on May 13, 2024 that death row prisoners could not be held in solitary confinement until their appeals had been exhausted, in what lawyers called a major rights victory for inmates.

IRAN - Urgent action to halt the execution of Parvin Mousavi

IRAN - 4 Women Nobel Peace Laureates Call To End Iran’s Execution Spree

Shirin Ebadi, Jody Williams, Tawakkol Karman and Leymah Gbowee

IRAQ: DRUG DEALER SENTENCED TO DEATH

A Baghdad court on May 13, 2024 handed a death sentence for a drug dealer of foreign nationality accused of bringing narcotics into the country, state media reported.

IRAN - Razieh, a woman, executed in Mashhad on May 15

238 executions in Iran in 2024

IRAN - 5 men executed in Karaj on May 15

Political prisoner Khosrow Besharat + Mohammad-Reza Rahimpour, Sirus Hayatbini, Mohammad-Karim Fazeli, and an unidentified Afghan national

IRAN - Jafar Aslani executed in Qazvin on May 15

USA - Florida. Reynaldo Figueroa-Sanabria sentenced to death again

IRAN - Reza Gholamhosseini and Farokh Khan Mohammadi executed in Ilam on May 14