2025

IRAN - Behrouz Shirmohammadli executed in Gonbad-e Kavus on April 9

IRAN - Iman Salimi executed in Borazjan on April 9

IRAN - Alireza Seifi executed in Shiraz on April 9

IRAN - 7 Men Hanged in Karaj (Ghezel Hesar) on April 9

Sajad Akbari, Bahram Hodavand Khani, Salar Amir Jalali, Abolfazl Karimi, Mehdi Salan and two unidentified men. Hengaw (and HoC) already reported the execution of 4 of them

IRAN - Ebrahim Memari Hanged in Ahvaz on April 9

IRAN - 2 more men executed in Karaj (Ghezel Hesar) an April 9

Meysam Veysi and Shir-Mohammad Nazarollah

IRAN - Seifollah Nasiri executed Tabriz on 9 April

IRAN - Shamseddin Fazli Hanged in Tabriz on April 9

IRAN - Amir Ahmad Sanai (Mazarehei) and Mohammadreza Damideh executed in Mashhad on April 8

IRAN - 2 Women and 3 Men executed in Mashhad on April 8

2 Unk women and Mohammadreza Damideh, Amirahmad Sanayi, Sajad Barahouyi

USA - Florida - Michael Tanzi, 48, White, was executed

INDIA: TELANGANA HC UPHOLDS FIVE DEATH SENTENCES IN DILSUKHNAGAR BLASTS CASE

The Telangana high court on April 8, 2025 upheld the death sentence awarded to five Indian Mujahideen operatives in the 2013 Dilsukhnagar blasts case, dismissing their appeal challenging the punishment.

IRAN - Five Political Prisoners Executed in Mashhad on April 8

Farhad Shakeri, Abdolhakim Azim Gorgij, Abdolrahman Gorgij, Taj Mohammad Khormali, and Malek-Ali Fadaie-Nasab

IRAN - 3 unidentified women were executed on 8 April in Mashhad prison

IHR previously wrote of 2

TWO YEARS AFTER ABOLISHING THE MANDATORY DEATH PENALTY, DATA SHOWS MALAYSIA MAY BE MOVING ON FOR GOOD

Within two years year of the Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim administration abolishing the mandatory death penalty, the number of death row inmates has plunged by nearly 90 per cent

IRAN - Shahram Goudarzi and Taher Shaabani executed in Aligudarz on April 7

TAIWAN: CONSTITUTIONAL COURT REJECTS EXECUTED MURDERER'S APPEAL

The Constitutional Court on April 7, 2025 dismissed an appeal filed by double murderer Huang Lin-kai before his execution, stating it had no jurisdiction over the case.

CHINA: POSTGRADUATE STUDENT SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR POISONING ROOMMATES

Zhou Liren, a postgraduate student at Xiangtan University in Hunan province, was sentenced to death and life-long deprivation of political rights on April 7, 2025 for poisoning his two roommates' food, killing one of them, according to the Xiangtan Interm

IRAN - Hamid Abdouli executed in Dezful on April 7

IRAN - Seyed Taha Hosseini executed in Bukan on April 7

ZAMBIA COMMITTED TO IRREVERSIBLE ABOLITION OF THE DEATH PENALTY FOR ALL CRIMES

The Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR entered into force for Zambia on 19 March 2025, three months after date of deposition of the accession instruments.

IRAN - Samir Ghasemi executed in Qom on April 6

PAKISTAN: MUSLIM GETS DEATH SENTENCE FOR MURDERING CHRISTIAN MAN

A judge in Pakistan on March 27, 2025 sentenced to death a Muslim who murdered a 20-year-old Christian in the presence of his family members, sources said.

IRAN - Kurdish political prisoner Pakhshan Azizi is at imminent risk of execution

After her second appeal was rejected by the Supreme Court

IRAN - Sajad Farahani executed in Arak on April 6

IRAN - Hossein Malazadeh executed in Zanjan on April 5

IRAN - Zahir Shamsi executed in Ahvaz on April 5

IRAN - Jamil Reshadat executed in Ahvaz on April 5

USA - Florida. Joseph Ables, 75, White, sentenced to death

INDIA: MAN, WOMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH IN 10-MONTH-OLD MURDER CASE IN UP’S MAINPURI

A local court in Mainpuri (Uttar Pradesh) on March 18, 2025 sentenced two persons including a woman to death in connection with a 10-month-old murder case in Nanmai village under Karhal police station limits.