INDEX
Article(s)
COVID-19: Calling for a Worldwide Moratorium on the Death Penalty During the Pandemic
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 18 June 2020
“When the whole world is trying hard to save lives from COVID-19, an execution by the state is contradictory and perverse” said Kevin Miguel Rivera Medina, President of the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty.
2020
Moratorium
Article(s)
The Abolition of the Death Penalty in Tunisia, a Fight Against Torture
By Organization Against Torture in Tunisia, on 18 June 2020
In its 2019 annual report, the Organization Against Torture in Tunisia (Organisation contre la torture en Tunisie, OCTT) denounced the death penalty and identified it as the most cruel form of torture.
Moratorium
Tunisia
Article(s)
Call for actions on World Day in Sub-Saharan Africa 2
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 17 June 2020
The World Coalition Against the Death Penalty (World Coalition) and FIACAT are part of a joint project which aims to contribute to the abolition of the death penalty in Sub-Saharan Africa.
2020
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cameroon
Congo
Côte d'Ivoire
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Ghana
Guinea
Kenya
Liberia
Mauritania
Niger
Senegal
Sierra Leone
Togo
United Republic of Tanzania
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Call for actions on World Day in the Maldives and Turkey
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 17 June 2020
The World Coalition Against the Death Penalty and its 14 international member organizations active in the Philippines, the Maldives and Turkey are part of a joint project which aims to combat the resurgence of the death penalty, particularly in the aforementioned three countries at risk.
Maldives
Turkey
Article(s)
Finance and Administration Manager
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 14 May 2020
The World Coalition Against the Death Penalty recruits a Finance and Administration Manager for a full time permanent position starting as soon as possible.
2020
Article(s)
Loopholes in Saudi promise to end death sentences against children
on 6 May 2020
Saudi Arabia’s Human Rights Commission has announced that children are no longer eligible for the death penalty in the Kingdom. Citing a royal decree, the commission stated that anyone convicted of crimes that took place while they were under the age of 18 will face a maximum punishment of ten years in juvenile detention.
2020
Juveniles
Saudi Arabia
Article(s)
Iran: Annual report on the death penalty 2019
By Iran Human rights and ECMP (Together Against the Death Penalty), on 4 May 2020
Iran Human Rights (IHR) and ECPM (Together Against the Death Penalty) published its 12th report on 31 march 2020. The report provides an assessment and analysis of the death penalty trends in 2019 in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
2020
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Article(s)
Sentenced to death without execution: Why capital punishment has not yet been abolished in the Eastern Caribbean and Barbados
By The death penalty project, on 4 May 2020
Roger Hood and Florence Seemungal with the assistance of Amaya Athill, published a empirical study aims to shed light on why Eastern Caribbean States and Barbados hang on to capital punishment even though they haven’t carried out any executions in the last ten years.
Barbados
Article(s)
Abolition of the death penalty for terrorism in Chad
By FIACAT, on 30 April 2020
On 28 April 2020, the Chadian National Assembly unanimously voted to abolish the death penalty for crimes of terrorism.
2020
Chad
Article(s)
TAEDP Withdraws from Ministry of Justice’s Task Force to Research the Gradual Abolition of the Death Penalty
By TAEDP, on 30 April 2020
TAEDP Press Release, April 2, 2020The Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty made this decision after the Ministry of Justice, in total disregard for the rule of law, arbitrarily and illegally executed a death row inmate on April 1, 2020.
Taiwan