2026

IRAN - Woman arrested for contacts with foreign media

Accused of espionage

IRAN - 19-year-old protester Saghar Gholami held in legal limbo

USA - Texas. 2 Magicians Warn the U.S. Supreme Court About Junk Science

Penn & Teller

IRAN - 3 Protesters Sentenced to Death

Majid Nasiri, Shahab Dadkhah + 1

IRAQ: BAGHDAD COURT MANDATES DEATH FOR FIVE DRUG TRAFFICKERS

An Iraqi court has sentenced five drug traffickers to death after convicting them of possessing large quantities of narcotics, the Supreme Judicial Council revealed on April 15, 2026.

IRAN - Ali Zohrabi executed in Kashan on April 15

PAKISTAN: SC UPHOLDS DEATH PENALTY FOR MAN WHO KILLED HIS FATHER

The Supreme Court of Pakistan on April 13, 2026 dismissed an appeal against the death sentence of a convict, who had murdered his biological father and severely injured stepmother and three siblings over the transfer of a portion of property to his second

IRAN - At Least 45 people arrested for ‘contacts with foreign media’.

IRAN - Woman Arrested for sending videos to foreign media

IRAN - 6 people arrested for sending videos top foreign media

Including 2 women

IRAN - Report on the Arrest of Mohammad-Parsa Golchin

Olympiad Gold Medal–Winning Literature Student

IRAN - Ehsan Hosseinipour Faces death sentence

A protester

SAUDI ARABIA: ALI AL-SUBAITI AND HIS UNCLE MUSTAFA AL-SUBAITI EXECUTED IN NINTH POLITICAL EXECUTION THIS YEAR

Saudi authorities executed Ali bin Hassan Al-Subaiti and his uncle Mustafa bin Saleh Al-Subaiti on April 9, 2026, in the Eastern Province, after convicting them on alleged “terrorism” charges, marking the ninth political execution since the beginning of t

IRAN - Teachers’ Union Activist Mohammad-Ali Zahmatkesh Arrested

MALAYSIA: DEATH PENALTY NOT NEEDED FOR DRINK DRIVING CASES, SAYS TRANSPORT MINISTER

Malaysia’s Transport minister Loke Siew Fook on April 13, 2026 shut the door on the possibility of introducing the death penalty under the Road Transport Act for cases linked to driving under the influence, despite calls from certain quarters to do so.

IRAN - 50 people arrested in Tehran

For posting images of the war on social media

USA - Kentucky. Lawmakers override Beshear’s veto of death penalty bill SB 251

IRAN - Ghazal Mawlan killed in a drone strike by IRGC

IRAN - 2 arrested for contact with foreign media

GLOBAL - The Death Penalty for Drug Offences: Global Overview 2025

Report from Harm Reduction International

IRAN - 8 people arrested by IRGC

‘Contacts with foreign media’

IRAN - 7 Foreign Nationals Arrested by IRGC

For having entered Iran illegally during the war

IRAN - Zeinab Shafizadeh Arrested

TANZANIA: COURT OF APPEAL UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE FOR CARPENTER IN LOVER’S MURDER CASE

The Court of Appeal in Arusha, Tanzania, on April 10, 2026, dismissed the appeal of Alex Julius, upholding the death sentence previously handed down by the High Court.

SAUDI ARABIA: SEVEN PEOPLE EXECUTED IN A DAY

Saudi authorities executed seven people who had been convicted of drug trafficking in a single day, state media said on April 12, 2026.

IRAN - Foreword to the 2025 Annual Report on the Death Penalty in Iran

By Nasrin Sotoudeh

IRAN - 10 People Arrested for Using Starlink

IRAN - 2025 Annual Report on the Death Penalty in Iran

At least 1,639 people executed

IRAN - Thousands of people arrested in Iran for “contacts with foreign media”

The West seems concerned only with its own “freedom of expression”, not that of the Iranian people