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DECEMBER 20, 2022GambiaDEATH PENALTYGAMBIA: DRIVER SENTENCED TO DEATH IN UPPER RIVER REGION
Justice Landing M. Sanneh, the presiding Judge of the High Court in Basse, in the Upper River Region (URR) has sentenced Bakary Jallow, a driver by profession to death for reportedly killing one Alieu Sanyang, The Point reported on 20 December 2022.
DECEMBER 20, 2022LibyaDEATH PENALTYLIBYA: 17 FORMER IS MEMBERS SENTENCED TO DEATH
A Libyan court sentenced 17 former members of the Islamic State group to death, a statement from the country’s Tripoli-based top prosecutor said on 19 December 2022.
- DECEMBER 20, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Karaj on December 20
Mehdi Kamrani Far + 2 unknown
- DECEMBER 19, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Riot at Karaj Penitentiary at least one prisoner killed
Mohsen Mansouri, and 17 transferred to solitary confinement in preparation for their executions
- DECEMBER 19, 2022AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
AFGHANISTAN: TALIBAN OFFICIAL PARDONS HIS FATHER'S MURDERER
A senior Afghan official has pardoned a man sentenced to death for murdering the politician's father, a court said on 18 December 2022, days after Taliban authorities carried out the first public execution since the Islamists seized power.
DECEMBER 19, 2022LebanonDEATH PENALTYLEBANON: DEATH SENTENCE UPHELD FOR KILLER OF BRITISH WOMAN
A Lebanese court has upheld the death sentence for an Uber driver convicted of killing a British woman who worked for the U.K. Embassy in Beirut five years ago, the embassy said on December 16, 2022.
- DECEMBER 18, 2022SudanDEATH PENALTY
SUDAN: WOMAN SENTENCED TO STONING DEATH WILL GO TO JAIL INSTEAD
A Sudanese woman charged with adultery has had her life spared and will instead spend six months behind bars after she admitted to kissing a man.
- DECEMBER 18, 2022NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
NIGERIA: KANO CLERIC SHEIKH KABARA SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR BLASPHEMY
An Islamic cleric, Sheikh Abduljabbar Kabara, was on 15 December 2022 sentenced to death by hanging by an Upper Shari’a Court sitting at Kofar Kudu in Kano State for alleged blasphemy.
- DECEMBER 18, 2022DEATH PENALTY
UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY APPROVES ‘MORATORIUM ON THE USE OF THE DEATH PENALTY’ RESOLUTION
125 votes in favour (3 more than in 2020), 37 against (one less than in 2020) and 22 abstentions (there were 24 in 2020).
DECEMBER 18, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Akbari + unknown executed in Sari on December 18
DECEMBER 17, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Qasim Salarzahi and Aziz Gargij executed on December 17
619 executions in 2022
DECEMBER 17, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Authorities arrested Taraneh Alidoosti
one of the country’s most famous actresses on charges of spreading falsehoods about protests