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Morocco is a de facto abolitionist country, having not carried out any execution since 1993. However, the country did give out death sentences against at least 10 individuals in 2018 and more than 93 were still on death row.
Mali is formally retentionist but has applied a moratorium since 1980, although executions are reported to have occurred in territories controlled by armed groups during the 2012 crisis.
The Maldives is formally retentionist but has applied a moratorium since 1954. In 2018, there were no death sentences imposed, but 15 people remained on death row.
Since the last execution took place in 1967, Australia has officially abolished the death penalty nationwide. By ratifying the ICCPR in 1978, Australia has committed itself to opposing the death penalty.
Lebanon is retentionist but applies since 2004 a moratorium. In 2018, at least 5 people received a death sentence.
Jordan is a retentionist country. The country sentenced at least 16 individuals to death but carried out no executions in 2018.
Iraq is a retentionist country. In 2018, the number of executions in Iraq decreased by more than 50%, with more than 52 executions carried out and more than 271 death sentences handed out.
Ending an unofficial five-year moratorium that began in 2008, Indonesia resumed executions in 2013. At least 47 individuals were sentenced to death in 2017 but no execution was carried out.
India remains a retentionist country. At least 162 people were sentenced to death in India in 2018, and 371 were reported to be on death row. 2018 was also the third year in a row that the country did not carry out any execution.
Guinea has become abolitionist after the adoption on 4 July 2016 by the Parliament of a law reforming the Criminal Code and removing the death penalty from sentences available to judges.
The DRC is de facto an abolitionist state, having carried out a death sentence for the last time in 2003. However, at least 22 individuals still received death sentences in the country in 2017 and the number of individuals on death row is unknown.
Death Penalty has been successfully abolished in Cote d’Ivoire thanks to PGA’s National Group’s supportive action in favor of the two bills adopted by the Government on 15 February 2015, amending the Criminal and the Criminal Procedure Code to repeal...
In 2015, Chad resumed executions, after a 12 years period without any death sentences being carried out. Indeed, despite the government having announced in 2014 that it would abolish the death penalty, the Chadian Parliament adopted on 30 July 2015 a new
The Central African Republic is formally retentionist but has applied a moratorium since 1981. In 2017, no death sentence was handed out.
Cameroon is an abolitionist de facto state, with the last execution taking place in 1997. However, the Criminal Code adopted in 2016 still upholds the death penalty, especially for terrorism-related offences.
Burkina Faso is abolitionist since 31 May 2018, when the National Assembly adopted a new Criminal Code abolishing the death penalty for all ordinary crimes.
The report on the systematic violations of human rights in Venezuela: "A downward spiral that does not seem to end".
PGA held its first Strategic Roundtable Discussion on Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing (IUU) and the Cape Town Agreement (CTA).