An overwhelming majority of states continued to support a UN call to halt executions on 17 November 2020, when the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) considered a draft resolution on a moratorium on the use of the death penalty.

UK - Professor Roger Hood, one of the founders of the international movement for the abolition of the death penalty, passed away.

USA - Bill Pelke, a pioneer of US abolitionism, and a friend of Hands Off Cain, died.

Professor Roger Hood passed away on 17 November 2020 after a short illness, aged 84.

According to reports received by the Human Rights Center of “No to prison, no to execution”, on 28 October 2020 a prisoner by the name of Ehsan Nemati was executed in Karaj Central Prison.

According to Iran Human Rights, a male prisoner’s death sentence for charges of “transporting and possessing drugs” was carried out in Taybad Prison on 15 November 2020.

Iraq executed 21 men convicted of “terrorism” on 16 November 2020 at the notorious Nasiriyah prison in the country’s south, medical and police sources said.

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on 17 November 2020 upheld death sentence for three people in a case lodged over the murder of a pregnant woman on Jahangirnagar University campus in 2000.

IRAN - ABAN, International People’s Tribunal Established to Investigate Iran Atrocities.

New Iran Human Rights Report profiles 53 human rights defenders, who have collectively been sentenced to nearly 400 years of imprisonment and 787 lashes.

A court controlled by Yemen’s Houthi rebels on 14 November 2020 sentenced 21 men to death for allegedly spying for the Saudi-led coalition which backs the Yemeni government, Houthi-run al-Masirah TV reported.

The Anti-Terrorist Court (ATC) of Rawalpindi on 11 November 2020 awarded three times death sentence to an accused in murder of a traffic warden and a passerby.