2025

IRAN - Hossein Dadvar and Sajad Shokri hanged in Kashan on December 28

IRAN - 9 men executed on December 27

Khalil Nouri, Ahmadali Safari, Sirus Karami, Rahim Khodaparast, Milad Nejati, Abolfazl Enhesari, Ahmadreza Esfahani, Nariman Souri, Vihan Shah-Mohammadi

IRAN - Mostafa Mehrjou and Ahmad Ali Saffari executed on December 27

IRAN - Jalil Nouri and Reza Hatami executed in Sari on December 27

IRAN - Abdulrahman Nahtani executed in Shiraz on November 26

IRAN - Karim Khojasteh Sentenced to Death for Hanging a Protest Banner

CHINA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING HIS CHILDREN

A man was sentenced to death for tricking his two children into drinking pesticide, causing their deaths, the Zunyi Intermediate People's Court in Guizhou province said on December 26, 2025.

IRAN - On 24 December, Iran reached and exceeded 2100 hangings since the beginning of 2025

IRAN - 3 men executed in various prisons on December 25

Amin Safari, Majid Khani, Heshmat Beigi

IRAN - Murad Karimi-Galeh and Nowruz Khalafi executed in Shushtar on December 25

AFGHANISTAN: TALIBAN PUBLICLY FLOGS NINE PEOPLE, INCLUDING FOUR WOMEN, IN BAMYAN AND KAPISA

The Taliban publicly flogged nine people, including four women, in Bamyan and Kapisa provinces on charges of “illicit relationships” and “adultery,” the group’s supreme court announced

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO - In defence of Joseph Kabila

Who democratically ruled Congo for 17 years, and now is sentenced to death

IRAN - Zahra Khanzadeh and Amir Azizi executed in Mashhad on December 24

64th woman in 2025

IRAN - Yaghoub Karimpour sentenced to death for “espionage for Israel"

IRAN - 12 men executed in various prisons on December 24

Masoud Moradi, Yaghoob Masoumi, Mohammad-Mehdi Adavi, Ebrahim Alizadeh, Mehdi Rajabali Zadeh, Nouraddin Panahi, Mohammad Nourian, Khodakaram Safapour, Nemat Khosravi, Noushad Kazemian, Nazir ... and Ayoub Dehqani

IRAN - 4 men executed in various prisons on December 24

Yarmohammad Saljouqi, Jahanshah Rashidian, Behrouz Sheikhi, … Rastegari

IRAN - Mostafa Keifari and Sohrab Majidi executed on December 24

20 executions on December 24

IRAN - Eskandar Bakhshoudeh executed in Isfahan on December 24

IRAN - The 100th Week of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” Campaign

In 55 Prisons Across Iran

IRAN - Several people with Swedish-Iranian citizenship have been taken hostage by the Ministry of Intelligence

Report from Maryam Pezeshki, an Iranian artist and a friend of Hands off Cain

IRAN - Senior Military Official: 2,000 Arrested on Espionage Charges

IRAN - Mahdieh Keyhani executed in Hamedan on December 23

AFGHANISTAN: TALIBAN PUBLICLY FLOGS MAN AND WOMAN IN NANGARHAR FOR ‘ILLICIT RELATIONSHIP’

The Taliban publicly flogged a man and a woman in eastern Nangarhar province on December 10, 2025 after they were convicted of engaging in an “illicit relationship,” the group’s supreme court announced.

NIGERIA: S’COURT UPHOLDS MARYAM SANDA’S DEATH SENTENCE, OVERRULES TINUBU’S CLEMENCY

The Supreme Court on December 12, 2025 upheld the death sentence imposed on Maryam Sanda, daughter-in-law of a former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, over the killing of her husband, Bilyamin Bello.

IRAN - The execution of Javad Vafaei has been suspended

Political prisoner

IRAN - 9 men executed in various prisons on December 23

Karim Yousefi, Saman Barzegar, Yazdan Jozipour, Safarali Sadeghi, Nejat Yari, Manouchehr Mahaki, Houshang Amiri, Qanbar Farhadi, Shirzad Chamani

IRAN - 6 men executed in various prisons on December 23

Sepehr Moradi, Pejman Saeedi, + 4.

IRAN - 400 influential women urge to halt execution of Zahra Tabari

IRAN - Yaser Ghoreishi and Mohammadreza Nikkhah executed in Ghaemshahr on December 23

IRAN - 9 men executed in various prisons on December 23

Mohammad Hassan Sharafi, Emad Asaf, Afshin Tusi, Habib Amouri, Naser Jannatpour, Rastin Karami, Jalal Taheri, Milad Norouzi, Yadollah Almasi