Iran Human Rights calls upon the international community and human rights organisations for a stronger response
A military court in Somalia on 23 January 2021 sentenced a soldier to death for killing a civilian.
Project 39A at National Law University, Delhi, published the fifth edition of the “Death Penalty in India: Annual Statistic Report”
Hosseini was a wrestler. His case had received widespread support from the sports community
on drug (opium) charges
on murder charges
charged with rape
Iraq’s president ratified more than 340 death sentences for people with terrorism and other criminal charges, state media reported on 24 January 2021.
An article published online by Cambridge University Press is the first to report the nationwide public support rate for the death penalty in China.
for murder
A Kano state high court (appeal division) has set aside the death sentence imposed on Yahya Sharif Aminu, a Kano-based singer, convicted for blasphemy.
Terming it as rarest of the rare case, a court in Madhya Pradesh on 20 January 2021 sentenced a 21-year-old man and his 42-year-old uncle to death for raping and beheading a 12-year-old girl.
Two political prisoners who could be executed within hours
