Entries tagged with “Indonesia”
Jun 18, 2025
Iran, Saudi Arabia Lead the World in Use of Death Penalty for Drug Offenses
Nearly half of all executions to date in 2025 in Iran (244) and Saudi Arabia (50) have been for drug-related crimes, tracking closely patterns documented by Harm Reduction International (HRI) for 2024. According to HRI’s new report, *The Death Penalty for Drug Offenses: Global Overview 2024*, the use of the death penalty for drug-related crimes reached“crisis levels” in 2024. At least 615 people were known to be executed on drug-related charges worldwide, 607 of which took…
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Aug 07, 2024
Worldwide Wednesday International Roundup: Belarus, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Singapore
30-year-old German national Rico Krieger, who was sentenced to death on six charges related to terrorism, espionage, and mercenary activity, was pardoned by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on July 30, 2024, thereby converting his death sentence to a life prison term. On August 1, Mr. Krieger was subsequently released during the largest prisoner exchange since the Cold War, according to The Guardian. Eight Russian prisoners were released from Western…
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Jan 24, 2024
Worldwide Wednesday International Roundup: China, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Japan, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, and Yemen
The University of Oxford Death Penalty Research Unit, in collaboration with several human rights nonprofits, recently launched a database of foreign nationals sentenced to death or executed from January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2021 in Asia and the Middle East. They found that Saudi Arabia leads the Middle East in sentencing foreign nationals to death (385 people) and drug-trafficking (283), closely followed by murder (257), are the top crimes for which foreign…
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Sep 06, 2023
Worldwide Wednesday International Roundup: China, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, and Vietnam
On August 4, a South Korean national convicted of drug-trafficking was executed in China, according to South Korea’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who added during a press conference that this execution was“unrelated to the current bilateral relations” between the two nations. This was the first time a South Korean national was executed in China for drug-trafficking since 2014, when four…