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Newsletter January 2025

on 6 March 2025

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2025

Newsletter November 2024

on 6 March 2025

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World Coalition Against the Death Penalyt

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Wild flaws in judicial systems leading to death sentences: Iraq and Singapore

By the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 24 February 2025

Following Human Rights Watch’s World Report 2025, the World Coalition examines the death penalty in Iraq and Singapore, highlighting how judicial flaws undermine individuals’ fundamental rights.

2025

Fair Trial

Iraq

Singapore

Document(s)

Annual Report on the Death Penalty in Iran 2024

on 20 February 2025


2025

NGO report

Clemency

Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment

Drug Offenses

Fair Trial

Gender

Intellectual Disability

Iran (Islamic Republic of)

Juveniles

Legal Representation

Mental Illness

Murder Victims' Families

Women

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The Report provides an in-depth analysis of death penalty trends in Iran 2024. It covers execution statistics, legislative frameworks, and the abolitionist movement, offering insights on how the international community can help reduce executions.

Document(s)

The Death Penalty in Syrian Law and Its Exploitation by the Assad Regime to Eliminate Dissidents

By The Syrian Network for Human Rights, on 14 February 2025


2025

NGO report

Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment

Fair Trial

Juveniles

Mental Illness

Syrian Arab Republic

Terrorism

ar
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The report sheds light on the Assad regime’s use of the death penalty as an instrument of political repression from the outbreak of the popular uprising in 2011 up until the Assad regime’s downfall on December 8, 2024. In pursuit of this policy, the death penalty was no longer restricted to criminal offenses but became a tool used by the Assad regime to terrorize society, consolidate the regime’s security grip, and eliminate dissidents without fair trials.

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Member(s)

Georgians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (GFADP)

on 31 January 2025

Georgians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (GFADP) works to end the death penalty and capital punishment in Georgia, the USA, and around the world. We are a strong, diverse, grassroots, statewide movement which opposes individual executions; supports legislative initiatives aimed at reducing the application of the death penalty until it is ultimately abolished; protects […]

2025

United States

Human Rights

Member(s)

Human Rights Office

on 31 January 2025

Human Rights Office of Kandy Diocese is a catholic organization established in 2008. The HRO campaign to establish the Rule of Law by taking up individual cases of victims of Torture, rape, gender based violence, domestic violence, families of the disappeared and of the prisoners. HRO provide victims “Holistic” assistance – which includes: security, protection, […]

Sri Lanka

Document(s)

Death Penalty in India: Annual Statistics Report 2024

on 31 January 2025


NGO report

Death Row Conditions

Fair Trial

India

Moratorium


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This annual publication presents changes in the death row population as well as political and legal developments in the administration of the death penalty in India each year. The statistics are compiled through a combination of data mining of court websites, media monitoring and Right to Information applications.

  • Document type NGO report
  • Countries list India
  • Themes list Death Row Conditions / Fair Trial / Moratorium
Witness to Innocence, with the following US and Worldwide organizations that endorse this statement: 8th Amendment Project, Abolition of Death Penalty in Iraq, The Advocates for Human Rights, The American Constitution Society, Capital Punishment Justice Project, Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide - Cornell Law School, CrimeInfo, a member organization of Anti Death Penalty Asia Network (ADPAN), Death Penalty Action, Death Penalty Alternatives for Arizona, Death Penalty Focus,faith leaders of color coalition (flocc), FIACAT -Fédération internationale des ACAT – International Federation of ACATs, Georgians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (GFADP), Harm Reduction International, Italian Federation for Human Rights (FIDU), Kentucky Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, Kenya Human Rights Commission, Lawyers For Human Rights International, India, Lembaga Bantuan Hukum Masyarakat,Le MRAP (Mouvement contre le Racisme et pour l'Amitié entre les Peuples), Ministry Against the Death Penalty, Missourians to Abolish the Death Penalty, Parliamentarians for Global Action (PGA), Paul Rougeau Committee - Italy, Pennsylvanians Against the Death Penalty, Puertorrican Coalition Against the Death Penalty, Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty, Tennesseans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (TADP), Women Beyond Walls, Witness to Innocence

Article(s)

The Death Penalty Does Not Make Us Safer

By Witness to Innocence, on 24 January 2025

Witness to Innocence Responds to President Trump’s Executive Order on the Death Penalty, and Organizations from throughout the US and the World Sign-on in Solidarity

2025

United States

Singapore: End harassment and intimidation of Transformative Justice Collective

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Singapore: End harassment and intimidation of Transformative Justice Collective

By the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 17 January 2025

We, the undersigned 11 organizations, condemn in the strongest terms the latest restrictions imposed by the Singapore government on activists from the Transformative Justice Collective (TJC), a civil society group actively opposing the death penalty and advocating for human rights in the country. 

2025

Singapore