Death penalty / executions

Deadly Fatwa; 36 years into the 1988 Massacre of Political Prisoners in Iran

On 15 February, 2024, JVMI (Justice for the Victims of the 1988 Massacre in Iran) held a civil society hearing ...

On the morning of 23 January 2024, two political prisoners were hanged following orders from the Revolutionary Court in Iran. ...

Iranian authorities are once again violating international human rights laws over the imminent execution of political prisoner Abbas Kour Kouri, ...

The World Day against the Death Penalty was established by an association of NGOs, the World Coalition against the Death ...

At the 47th regular session of the Human Rights Council, Mr. Morris Tidball-Binz, the new Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or ...

UN expert calls for immediate halt to executions and surrounding secrecy in Iraq GENEVA 27 July 2012 – The United Nations ...

Capital punishment, the death penalty, death sentence, or execution is a legal process whereby a person is put to death ...

UN urges Iraq to implement a moratorium on executions GENEVA / BAGHDAD 6 May 2009 – The Office of the United ...

GICJ stands in strong condemnation of the Iraqi government’s continued practice of arbitrary executions and disregard for life and international ...

In October 2013 a new wave of executions was carried out in Iraq, during which 42 people were executed within only ...