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The death penalty in Iran : the highest number of executions in over 17 years

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Partenaires et staff ECPM en 2025

Event, In pictures

ECPM Partners Week : Reinforced Links in the Fight Against the Death Penalty

From 23 to 29 June 2025, ECPM welcomed 15 representatives from 9 partner organisations to Paris for a week of training and networking. Highlights of the week included thematic workshops, the Annual General Meetings of ECPM and of the Plateforme des Droits de l’Homme (PDH), and the Paris Pride. Take…

Pancarte "Nos vies valent plus que leur homophobie" - Pride 2025

Event, In pictures

Pride 2025 : ECPM Staunchly Supported the LGBTQIA+ Rights

On Saturday 28, June, Paris Pride occured with around 500 000 participants. Once again, ECPM was part of the parade. Nowadays international political context offers more and more space to human rights repression and ECPM was present to denounce the criminilisation of homosexuality, still subject to the death penalty in…

Miniature carte Iran

Tribune / Editorial

Death Penalty, an Appalling Escalation : ECPM Warns of Worsening Death Penalty Situation in Iran

While French nationals Cécile Kohler and Jacques Paris have just been informed of the charges against them, which carry the death penalty, the Iranian authorities this week in Geneva rejected all recommendations calling on the State to put an end to executions. At the beginning of July, the figures for…

Les participant.es du workshop "Plaidoyer et sensibilisation pour l'abolition de la peine de mort" avec Saman Yasin

Event, In pictures

Death Is Not Justice : 3rd ‘Advocacy and Awareness-raising for the Abolition of the Death Penalty’ Workshop in Strasbourg

ECPM, the Council of Europe (COE) and the German Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, with financial support from the COE, the permanent representations of France and Switzerland and the AFD, and the co-financing of OFAJ, organised the ‘Advocacy and awareness-raising for the abolition of the death penalty’ workshop in…

Session de formation pour les avocat·es sur la peine de mort en Tunisie

Tunisia : Training and Discussion Workshop On The Death Penalty And The Role Of Lawyers

On 24 and 25 April 2025, the Tunisian Coalition Against the Death Penalty (CTCPM) and ECPM organised a training session for lawyers on the death penalty as part of their joint project ‘Pathways to Abolition: Supporting Progress Towards the Abolition of the Death Penalty’.

Sunny Jacobs aux Rencontres d'ECPM

Sunny Jacobs : a lifetime of fighting for abolition

Wrongly sentenced to death in Florida in 1976, Sunny Jacobs spent 17 years in prison, including 5 years on death row. A major witness for ECPM, Sunny Jacobs left a lasting impression through her resilience and courage. Having passed away on June 3, ECPM pays tribute to her.

Portrait de Pedram Madani

Iran : “Pedram Madani is gone, taken away by a regime without honour”

Pedram Madani was executed on May 28 at the Ghezel Hesar Prison. Louis Arnaud, a French national, was arrested by the Iranian regime while travelling throughout Iran in 2022. He spent two years in prison until his release on 13 June 2024. During his detention, he befriended Pedram Madani, who…

Rosalie ECPM de dos dans la Pride 2024 avec des ballons et des pancartes

Advocacy, Event

Pride Month: 12 states in the world still provide the death penalty for homosexuality in their penal codes

June is celebrated as Pride Month worldwide and is an opportunity to remember the importance of defending human rights, particularly the right to life and freedom. Members of the LGBTQIA+ community are especially vulnerable to violations of their fundamental rights. In Africa, the Middle East and Asia, legislation in some…

Pete Ouko au Congrès régional d'Abidjan en 2018

In pictures, Testimony

Pete Ouko : “Don’t be limited by fear, don’t be limited by anything”

From 19 to 23 March, 2025, Pete Ouko, former death row prisoner in Kenya, was in Geneva first before travelling to Paris and Lyon from 23 March to 4 April to share his testimony, with ECPM. After spending eighteen years in prison, including eight years on death row, Pete Ouko…

Logos des signataires - Communiqué de presse Tunisie 2025

Tunisia undermines the African Court’s jurisdiction to hear human rights violations committed within its territory

On March 7, 2025, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Immigration and Tunisians Abroad confirmed that Tunisia had withdrawn its declaration of acceptance of the African Court's jurisdiction to receive petitions from individuals and NGOs with observer status before the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACHPR).

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