Al Shabab militants in Somalia on 22 December 2020 publicly cut off the right hands of a man after a sharia court convicted him of breaking into a shop and stealing about a 26,000 Somali shilling.

The Constitutional Council of Kazakhstan decided that there was no need to amend the Constitution for the ratification of the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aimed at abolishing the death penalty.

A Dhaka court on 20 December 2020 sentenced a woman and another one to death for killing her son Shamiul.

IRAN - A woman executed in the Sepidar Prison of Ahvaz. This is the 110th woman executed during the tenure of Rouhani

IRAN - Agents of the Intelligence Ministry destroyed the tomb of Navid Afkari

A criminal court in Shebeen El-Kom, Menoufiya, has sentenced a man convicted of murdering writer and critic Nafisa Qandil, the wife of renowned Egyptian poet Mohamed Afify Matar, to death.

A sessions court in Islamabad on 19 December 2020 awarded death sentence to Baitullah and life imprisonment to Gul Siddique for the murder of Major Mohammad Laraib of the Special Services Group (SSG) last year.

IRAN - Rasoul Ferdows executed at Boroujerd Central Prison on December 18.

According to Lebanon’s UN representative Amal Mudallali, Lebanon for the first time in history has voted against the death penalty in a United Nations session.

In a resolution supported by 614 votes, the European Parliament on 17 December 2020 condemned Iran for violating human rights. The European Union demanded Iran’s release of European citizens of Iranian origin.

Authorities in North Korea executed the owner of a fishing fleet in front of 100 boat captains and fisheries executives for secretly listening to broadcasts by Radio Free Asia and other forbidden media outlets while at sea.