Read our newsletter from 22 September 2024.

As we approach World Day Against the Death Penalty 2024, our partner organisation Eleos Justice invites individuals and organisations to submit creative works that, in line with the abolitionist spirit of World Day, cast a light on the death penalty.

A joint statement on the situation of enforced disappearances in Bangladesh in commemoration of the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances 2024.

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.

Read our joint submission, made with four of our partners, to the inquiry being held by the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade of the Parliament of Australia.

Read the open letter signed by 60 organisations condemning the Bangladesh Government’s efforts to manipulate the narrative about the ongoing protests, and calling for action to halt the violence and support investigations into alleged human rights violations during the crackdown on protesters.

Read our joint statement calling on the Bangladeshi government to immediately stop the violent crackdown on student protesters by law enforcement agencies, security forces, and members of the ruling party. Perpetrators should be held accountable through genuine and independent investigations.

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.

On the occasion of the United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture on 26 June, we join 11 organisations worldwide to express our grave concerns over continuing acts of torture and other ill-treatment committed by law-enforcement agencies and security forces in Bangladesh.

Following news that Dr Yang Hengjun’s suspended death sentence has been upheld, we call for immediate action from the Australian Government to make all efforts to bring Dr Yang home.

We are gravely concerned about a debate held in Tonga’s Parliament late last month, which suggests the country may be considering extending the death penalty to drug-related offences.

We are deeply concerned to learn of the conviction and death sentence imposed upon Ms Lesedi Molapisi for drug-related offences by a Bangladesh court on 27 May 2024.

Read our newsletter from 19 May 2024, providing a spotlight on the rising number of executions in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

We, the undersigned organisations, call on the state of Singapore to halt executions and declare a moratorium on its use of capital punishment as first steps.

Remembering Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran on the ninth anniversary of their deaths by execution in Indonesia.

Read our newsletter from 20 April 2024.

Read our newsletter from 21 March 2024, featuring the story of Luke Cook, an Australian man who was exonerated from death row in Thailand with the assistance of CPJP.

Read our newsletter from 23 February 2024.

A statement from Yang Hengjun’s family and friends.

Today’s announcement of a suspended death sentence for Dr Yang Hengjun is another cruel move in a case marred by secrecy and an apparent lack of procedural fairness.