2024

IRAN - Ameneh Alipour, a woman, executed in Zanjan on December 7

IRAN - Report on situation of political prisoner Shiva Esmaili

IRAN - Mahdi Hossein Zahi executed in Zahedan on December 5

SAUDI ARABIA: UTTAR PRADESH MAN GIVEN DEATH PENALTY ON DRUG CHARGES

A court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced a man from Meerut in Uttar Pradesh to death on charges of drug trafficking, triggering panic and despair among his family members who have pleaded for clemency, PTI reported on December 4, 2024.

IRAN - Pakhshan Azizi has been denied visitation rights for the past 150 days.

Kurdish political prisoner on death row

IRAN - Ali Khaleqi Farghani executed in Mashhad on December 5

Execution carried out on his 22nd birthday

FRANCE REQUESTS TRANSFER OF DEATH ROW CONVICT HELD IN INDONESIA

France has asked Indonesia to transfer a French death row convict, who has been jailed for drug crimes in the country since 2005, a senior minister told AFP on November 29, 2024.

IRAN - Narges Mohammadi was granted a medical leave

Nobel Peace Prize laureate and human rights activist

USA - Texas. Jason Alan Thornburg, 44, White, sentenced to death

IRAN - Sina Shams-Elahi executed in Miandoab on December 4

SAUDI ARABIA SURPASSES 300 EXECUTIONS IN 2024

Saudi Arabia has put over 300 people to death in 2024, according to an AFP tally, after four executions announced on December 3 brought the kingdom's total to a level far outstripping the highest known annual figures.

IRAN - 45th week of “No to Executions Tuesdays”

IRAN - 3 men executed in Tabriz on December 3

Khalil Hassanzadeh, Abdullah Panah, Rasoul Ebrahimi

USA - Missouri. Christopher Collings, 49, White, was executed on December 3

IRAN - Sadeq Asadi executed in Yasuj on December 3

IRAN - Hassan Sa’adati executed in Rasht on December 3

VIETNAM: COURT UPHOLDS TYCOON’S DEATH SENTENCE FOR $12BN BANK FRAUD

A Vietnamese court on December 3, 2024 rejected a real estate tycoon’s appeal, upholding the death sentence handed down for the embezzlement of $12bn.

USA - California. Richard Tyrone Garcia, 41, Hispanic, sentenced to death

INDIA: MAN GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING WIFE, TWO KIDS, MOTHER

The 5th Additional District and Sessions Court in Mysuru has sentenced a man to death for the murders of his pregnant wife, two children, and mother, the Indian Express reported on November 28, 2024.

IRAN - Khadanur Gorgij executed on December 2

CHINA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR PUSHING WIFE INTO SEA, USING INSURANCE PAYOUT ON PROSTITUTES

A man in China was sentenced to death after pushing his wife into the sea from a ferry and attempting to claim her life insurance compensation to pay off debts and finance the use of prostitutes.

IRAN - Mousa Ahmadian executed in Gorgan on December 2

IRAN - 2 women and 2 men executed in Ilam on December 2

Farideh Jafarzadeh, Aliyeh Kavari-Zadeh, Hassan Hassan-Beigi, Abdolvahab Babakhaniyan

IRAN - At least 126 prisoners executed during November 2024

Hengaw report

IRAN - Ahmad Shah-Bakhsh (Khanshini) executed in Zahedan on December 1

IRAN - Toomaj Salehi released

IRAN - Farkhondeh Allah Moradi executed in Isfahan on December 1

IRAN - Peyman Zarei executed in Shiraz on December 1

IRAN - 6 Political Prisoners Sentenced to Execution for PMOI Membership

Abolhassan Montazer, Pouya Ghobadi, Vahid Bani-Amrian, Babak Alipour, Ali Akbar Daneshvarkar, and Mohammad Taghavi

INDIA: 7 MEN WHO KILLED 23-YR-OLD IN 2020, CHOPPED BODY INTO PIECES, GET DEATH PENALTY

Calling it a rarest of rare case, a Chinsurah fast track court on November 28, 2024 sentenced seven persons to death in a 2020 murder case.