A Seoul court on January 19, 2026 posthumously acquitted a man executed 50 years ago for allegedly attempting to rebuild an underground pro-North Korea organization in a retrial of the case.

Arrests/abductions of opponents continue: Aubin Minaku Ndjalandjoko

A Rajkot special court on January 17, 2026 delivered a rarest-of-rare judgment with unprecedented speed, sentencing 30-year-old Remsinh Dudwa to death for the sexual assault of a minor girl in Atkot’s Kanpar village.

8,949 additional deaths are still under investigation

It is estimated that thousands of protesters have been killed on 8 and 9 January

167 executions since the beginning of the year