A Rajkot special court on January 17, 2026 delivered a rarest-of-rare judgment with unprecedented speed, sentencing 30-year-old Remsinh Dudwa to death for the sexual assault of a minor girl in Atkot’s Kanpar village.

8,949 additional deaths are still under investigation

It is estimated that thousands of protesters have been killed on 8 and 9 January

167 executions since the beginning of the year

Omid Teymourirad, Amir Teymourirad, Armin Teymourirad

Nasir Nasiri, Arsalan Ghahramani, and Omid Saeedi

Hamid Arzanlou, Vahid Arzanlou, Mohammadreza Entezami, Milad Gholami, Ali Sadeghi

A Japanese court rejected on January 16, 2026 three death-row inmates' demands against the state to halt their executions by hanging as an inhumane practice in violation of an international convention prohibiting cruel punishment.

Morteza Shaneh, Parsa Saffar, Hamid Mahdavi, Abbasali Ramezani

Amir Mohammad Arbabpouri, Melina Asadi, Sam Afshari, Abolfazl Heydari-Moslou, Mohammad Ghasem-Rousta, Mehrab Golestani, Amir Salar Bahmaninejad