Zimbabwe has started the process of resentencing prisoners who were on death row after officially abolishing the death penalty, the Global South World reported on January 22, 2025.
In Shiraz and Nishapur
Year 2 of “No to Execution Tuesdays”
The Islamabad High Court on January 22, 2025 commuted the death sentence of two convicts in Osama Satti murder case to life imprisonment and acquitting three others.
Congo's military court of appeal on January 27, 2025 confirmed the death sentence previously imposed on Belgian Jean-Jacques Wondo, La Libre writes.
Two men were sentenced to death on January 24, 2025 for separate deadly stabbings in China.
A High Court in Bauchi State has sentenced Usman Abdullahi to death by hanging for the murder of Zaidu Adamu Kofar Dumi.
Already 81 executions in 2025
Two political prisoners who could be executed within hours
The European Parliament on January 23, 2025 adopted a resolution by a show of hands regarding the respect for human rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
A Pakistani court on January 25, 2025 sentenced four people to death for blasphemy
