News & Updates
Malaysia and Singapore at a crossroads: Stop executions, uphold human rights
As five men face imminent execution in Singapore, we join many civil society organisations calling on Singapore to halt all executions immediately, and urging Malaysia to protect its nationals on death row and advocate for the complete abolition of the death penalty, at home and internationally.
Singapore: Call for death penalty moratorium renewed after first clemency since 1998 and third execution in three weeks
While welcoming the first clemency in Singapore in almost 30 thirty years, we join Amnesty International, ADPAN and HRI in renewing our call for an immediate moratorium on the death penalty.
Singapore: End harassment and intimidation of the Transformative Justice Collective
Read our joint statement with 10 allied organisations condemning the latest restrictions imposed on TJC and calling on the Singapore government to cease the use of laws that unduly restrict the right to freedom of expression.
Singapore: Authorities must end human rights crackdown and unlawful drug related executions
Read our joint statement with six allied organisations who are greatly alarmed at the deteriorating human rights situation in Singapore, including executions for drug related offences and further restrictions on anti-death penalty activists.
World Day Against the Death Penalty 2024
Today CPJP joins activists around the world to mark World Day Against the Death Penalty under the theme 'The death penalty protects no one'.
Singapore: Authorities must end executions and stop targeting anti-death penalty activists to curb criticism
Read our joint statement with six allied organisations who are gravely concerned by developments in Singapore since early August 2024. The authorities carried out two executions in violation of international safeguards and limited the right to freedom of expression of a local NGO.
China: Judicial guidelines to curtail activism for Taiwan a further blow for human rights protections
We are alarmed by the recent publication by the Chinese authorities of new judicial guidelines providing directives to prosecute and harshly punish, including by the death penalty, those advocating and acting for Taiwan’s independence.
China: Yang Hengjun’s decision to waive his rights to an appeal
A statement from Yang Hengjun’s family and friends.
Odhikar: Bangladesh annual human rights report 2023
CPJP partner Odhikar has just released their 2023 human rights report on Bangladesh.