27 June 2019D-2 days before the 2019 Pride march: here is what awaits you!

This Saturday, June 29, ECPM is wearing its best clothes to march in the colours of the campaign "The death penalty is homophobic" during the Paris Pride march. And this, for the fifteenth consecutive year! ECPM has many surprises in store for you, including a series of mini-games to learn more about countries that still sentence homosexuality to death. To take up the challenge, meet us on Saturday 29 June at 2pm at 47 boulevard du Montparnasse (75006). We are waiting for many of you to...

27 June 2019ECPM General Assembly: it’s time for the annual review!

ECPM 2019's General Assembly On June 21, ECPM held its Annual General Meeting in its new offices on Parmentier Avenue. A meeting punctuated by the presentation of the 2018 annual report, humorously presented by Raphaël Chenuil-Hazan, ECPM's Executive Director, who engaged the participation of the members present with a fun quiz. The highlights of this early 2019 were not to be outdone, particularly the 7th World Congress in Brussels, the largest abolitionist gathering in the...

27 June 2019Release of the 2018’s activity report of ECPM

As every year, and like any association thet respects itself, ECPM publishes its activity report. This is an opportunity to look back at 2018, a year rich in actions, successes and prospects for ECPM. The year 2018 focused on Africa, the next abolitionist continent. The African Regional Congress held in Abidjan in April was a great success with 400 participants and 40 countries represented! Many other events took place throughout the year and on almost every continent. In...

26 June 2019In Yaoundé, launch of the first fact-finding mission on death row in Cameroon [press release]

The report "Sentenced to oblivion. Fact-finding mission on death row in Cameroon", which was officially launched on the 21st of June at the Delegation of the European Union from Yaoundé in Cameroon, is the result of an unprecedented fact-finding mission, conducted from May to October 2018 in five Cameroonian prisons by the Cameroonian Lawyers' Network against the Death Penalty (Racopem) and the association ECPM (Together Against the Death Penalty). The investigation, led by Nestor Toko,...

28 May 2019The film of the 7th World Congress Against the Death Penalty is online!

More diversified, more participatory and more formative than ever, dive into the heart of the 7th edition of the world's largest abolitionist event, held in Brussels from February 26 to March 1st 2019. Politicians, activists, lawyers, researchers, citizens: more than 1500 abolitionist fighters from all over the world seized the opportunity to gather their forces and ideas during four days of debates, training, workshops and cultural events in the heart of the European capital.  This film...

28 May 2019Press release: French nationals sentenced to death in Iraq

28 May 2019 - ECPM deplores the death sentence imposed on six French nationals in Iraq within three days, and calls on the French authorities to do everything in their power to ensure that the death penalty is not carried out.   The French Kévin Gonot, Léonard Lopez and Salim Machou were sentenced to death on 26 May 2019, followed by Mustapha Merzoughi on 27 May 2019, then Brahim Nejara and Karam El Harchaoui on 28 May, by the Baghdad Court for belonging to the Islamic State (EI). They...

24 May 201917 May: Homosexuality is punishable by the death penalty in 12 countries around the world

After a month of international pressure and boycotts, the Sultan of Brunei Hassanal Bolkiah was speaking for the first time since the entry into force of the new legislation introducing the death penalty by stoning for homosexuality and adultery. "My country has gone decades without applying the death penalty and will maintain its moratorium on executions," he said on Sunday, calling even for not to worry. Since then, major media and LGBT associations have been claiming a "backward...

24 May 2019PRESS RELEASE – The French citizen Félix Dorfin sentenced to death in Indonesia

May 20, 2019 ECPM deplores the death sentence imposed on the French citizen Félix Dorfin by an Indonesian court, whereas the initial sentence required by the Prosecutor's Office was 20 years' imprisonment and a fine of €620,000. The 35-year-old Frenchman Félix Dorfin, from Béthune (Pas-de-Calais), was sentenced to death for drug trafficking in Indonesia on 20 May 2019 by Judge Isnurul Syamsul Arif at the Mataram court on the island of Lombok. ECPM deplores this conviction of the judge,...

24 May 2019EDITO – Disagreements on the international scene

By Raphaël Chenuil-Hazan, Executive Director of ECPM Back on the Clash Clooney vs Brunei Most recently, on May 17, the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia was celebrated. As a kind of provocation, the Sultan of Brunei made headlines at the same time by officially making male homosexuality punishable by death. An arm wrestling match then broke out between Georges Clooney and many international personalities on the one hand and the Sultan of Brunei on the other, and...

13 May 2019Discover the first images of the film of the 7th World Congress Against the Death Penalty

Many of you (more than 1500!), politicians, activists, lawyers, researchers and citizens, gathered for the 7th edition of the world's most important abolitionist event, held in Brussels from 26 February to 1 March 2019. During these 4 days, we experienced strong moments of exchanges, reflection, activism and meetings, which could not have taken place elsewhere than during this Congress, in the heart of the European capital. Visit www.ecpm.org and our Facebook page on May 27, three months...