Entries tagged with “Yemen”
Jun 12, 2026
Amnesty International Global Report (2025): 78% Increase in Executions Globally Mark Highest Number Since 1981
According to Amnesty International’s annual death penalty report, 17 countries carried out a total of at least 2,707 executions in 2025. Although the low number of executing countries was consistent with the annual total of 20 executing countries or fewer since 2018, the number of executions marked the highest global total since 1981. The 78% increase in known executions from 2024 to 2025 was primarily driven by Iran, which accounted for 80% of the global total and increased by 122% compared to…
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Mar 06, 2024
Worldwide Wednesday International Roundup: Afghanistan, China, Iran, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United States, Vietnam, Yemen, and Zimbabwe
In the aftermath of Idaho’s failed execution of Thomas Creech and Texas’ execution of Ivan Cantu on February 28, the European Union released a statement expressing its regret and reiterating its unequivocal opposition to the death penalty.. “[The death penalty] is a violation of the right to life and fails to act as a deterrent to crime. It represents the ultimate punishment that makes miscarriages of justice irreversible,” said the statement. “[W]e are concerned by the fact that the number of…
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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 nationals in the region are…