2023

IRAN - Hengaw Organization for Human Rights releases its 2023 report

Execution of 823 Prisoners in Iran during 2023

SAUDI ARABIA: FOUR PEOPLE EXECUTED ON NEW YEAR’S EVE

Sauri Arabia executed four people on New Year’s Eve, according to the Saudi Press Agency.

NO EXECUTIONS IN JAPAN IN 2023; LAST ONE WAS FOR AKIHABARA KILLER

Japan carried out no executions in 2023 for the first time in three years.

NORTH KOREA: PUBLICLY EXECUTED FOR KILLING A WOMAN WHILE TRYING TO STEAL BEANS

Hundreds of residents were forced to gather at an airfield in frigid weather to watch authorities execute a 23-year-old man by firing squad on December 19, 2023, residents in North Korea told Radio Free Asia.

IRAN 2 Afghan citizens executed in Karaj on December 30

Not identified

INDIA: RAJASTHAN POSCO COURT AWARDS DEATH PENALTY TO RAPE, DOUBLE MURDER ACCUSED YOUTH

A Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) court in Rajasthan’s Pali district awarded the death penalty to a 22-year-old accused in a case involving rape and double murder, Hindustan Times reported on December 13, 2023.

PAKISTAN: SENATE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE VOTES AGAINST PUBLIC HANGING FOR RAPISTS

Pakistan’s Senate Standing Committee on Human Rights passed a resolution on December 30, 2023 against a proposal to impose the death penalty by public hanging of capital offenders and rapists in particular.

NIGERIA: GOV. SANWO-OLU OF LAGOS STATE RELEASES 246 INMATES, COMMUTES 39 DEATH SENTENCE TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT

Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State has approved the release of 246 inmates from various correctional facilities across the state.

IRAN - Abdul Shawali executed in Karaj on December 30

QATAR COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCE OF 8 INDIAN NAVY VETERANS

A Qatar court has reduced sentences for eight former Indian Navy personnel involved in an alleged espionage case, India’s Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said on December 28, 2023.

VIETNAM: MAN GETS DEATH FOR BANK CAPER MURDER

A man who unsuccessfully tried to rob a bank in Da Nang was sentenced to death on December 28, 2023 for killing a security guard who chased him from the crime scene.

IRAN - Asghar Abdullah Parikhani and Abbas Faraj Oghli executed in Meshgin Shahr

Parikhani on December 29, Oghli on December 25

BURUNDI: PRESIDENT SAYS GAY PEOPLE SHOULD BE STONED IN STADIUMS

Burundi's President Évariste Ndayishimiye has said that homosexuals in his country "should be stoned", BBC reported on December 29, 2023.

IRAN - Public execution in Najaf Abad for the murder of a police agent

Unidentified

IRAN - 3 men “recently” executed in Karaj

Akbar Qara Gozlu, Ehsan Hamedi + Unk.

IRAN - 4 political prisoners executed in Urmia on December 28

3 men and 1 woman: Aram Omri, Rahman Parhazou, Vafa Hanareh, and Nasim Namazi

IRAN - Hassan Rahbar executed in Gorgan on December 28

IRAN - Karim Aminikhah executed in Bandar Abbas on December 28

IRAN - Reza Eyvazi executed in Kashan on December 28

IRAN - Unnamed man executed in Yazd on December 28

IRAN - 4 men executed in Ardabil on December 27

Yasin Khodakarami, Alireza Nejati, Jebreil Fadayi, Ali Zaman Khani

IRAN - Ismaeil Ghader Magham (Barahoei) executed in Birjand on December 27

IRAN - HRANA: Annual Report on Human Rights in Iran for the year 2023

IRAN - Ramin Faghiri Executed in Hamedan on December 27

IRAN - Mansour Salamat killed under the torture on December 27

IRAN - 3 men executed in Birjand on December 27

Ismail Qadir Maqam, Ahmad Gergij, Mohammad Hissari

IRAN - 3 women and 1 man executed in Birjand on December 27

IRAN - Mehdi Dahmardeh executed in Birjand on December 27

Nineth person to be executed that day in that prison