Shoja Asgari, Heshmat Fallahi + 2
A Taliban court in Paktika province has overturned the death sentence against Abdul Alim Khamosh, a teacher who had been detained on charges of “insulting the prophet of islam,”
Making it clear that not every brutal murder warrants capital punishment, the Punjab and Haryana High Court on December 22, 2025 commuted the death sentence of Ashok Kumar
Mohammadjafar Babaei, Asghar Tavakoli, Ebrahim Hakimi
Soheil Bakhtiari, Sobhan Safizadeh, Amir Mahdi Navabi, Sina Nadari, Marvan Emadabadi, Yaser Khatibi
Nariman Mohammadi, Eskandar Bakhshoudeh, Taher Bastani
Ali Safar Sepahvand, Mostafa Mehrjoo, Moein Hassanzadeh, Jamshid Akbari, Jafar Najafi, Mousa Rahimi-Rad, Azizali Kolkhani + 1
Saudi authorities on December 23, 2025 carried out the execution of three detainees from the eastern province of Qatif, a move that has drawn criticism from rights groups and opposition figures.
Iraq’s High Criminal Court on December 28, 2025 sentenced former Baath-era security commander Shaker Ghafour Al-Douri to death after convicting him of participating in mass executions targeting Kurdish Barzani civilians.
There is no more news of Emmanuel Ramazani Shadary, Kabila's right-hand man