Join us! CPJP's Vice-Chair Sara Kowal is co-facilitating a hybrid event at #WomenDeliver next week exploring women's lived experience of punitive drug policy and the fight to #EndTheDeathPenalty.
📅 Wed 29 April | 12:00–1:30 PM (AEST)
💻 Register: bit.ly/4cHcGr0
Joint Statement: Despite promises for reform, #SaudiArabia has surpassed 2,000 executions in just over 10 years. CPJP joins 37 international human rights organisations calling for an immediate halt to executions in Saudi Arabia.
www.cpjp.org.au/news/joint-s...
CPJP joins nine int'l human rights organisations in calling on the #Maldives to withdraw a proposed bill that would end their longstanding moratorium on the death penalty. We also call for the repeal of legislation that extended the death penalty to drug offences.
www.cpjp.org.au/news/joint-s...
The Singaporean government should immediately halt the execution of Omar bin Yacob Bamadhaj, scheduled for April 16, 2026, for trafficking cannabis. Joint statement from @hrw.org @amnesty.org @cpjpaus.bsky.social & @adpan.bsky.social www.hrw.org/news/2026/04...
🚨 #Singapore must immediately halt the execution of Omar bin Yacob Bamadhaj, scheduled for tomorrow, 16 April, for cannabis trafficking. CPJP joins @hrw.org @amnesty.org and @adpan.bsky.social in calling for clemency for Omar before it's too late. #EndTheDeathPenalty
www.hrw.org/news/2026/04...
Iran: The Judiciary spokesperson announced that any “operational action” or “intelligence activity” linked to the “enemy” carries the death penalty and confiscation of assets. He stressed that there will be “no leniency” for the accused.
@cpjpaus.bsky.social @eji.org
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Australia, UK, France, Germany & Italy urged Israel to abandon its death penalty for terrorists bill. It passed & will apply almost exclusively to Palestinian defendants. We trust Australia will keep pressing Israel to repeal it. Israeli civil society is already challenging it in the High Court.
Join our side event at the #CN69 to discuss progress and challenges in the efforts to end the death penalty for drug offences.
Meet us at the Vienna International Centre, room M2, or join online here: https://bit.ly/DPCND69
Don't miss the side events where we will be participating at the #CND69 in Vienna. If you're not attending in-person, you can still join online.
Full schedule and online access links here: www.unodc.org/documents/commissions/CN...
🚨 Record spike in drug-related executions
Executions for drug offences surged 97% in 2025, with 1,212+ people executed worldwide - the highest figure recorded since we began monitoring in 2007.
Punitive drug control is now driving nearly half of confirmed executions globally.
Joint Statement | 18 February 2026
Together with @amnesty.org, @adpan.bsky.social, @harmreductionintl.bsky.social and World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, we condemn the execution of Malaysian Lingkesvaran Rajendaren in #Singapore on 11 Feb, carried out in violation of int'l law & standards.
With less than 10 hours left before Lingkesvaran's scheduled hanging in Singapore, his mother is pleading with President Tharman Shanmugaratnam to grant him a respite order.
You can read her letter at tinyurl.com/lingkesletter
#Singapore executed 17 people in 2025 – the most since 2003. The Age covers CPJP's commemoration of Australian man Van Nguyen's execution 20 years ago this month, featuring Hon. Justice Lex Lasry AM's call for int'l pressure on Singapore to end capital punishment. Grateful for his ongoing advocacy.
20 years ago today, Australian man Van Nguyen was executed in Singapore. He was 25.
Two decades on, Singapore's mandatory death penalty continues - 2025 is the deadliest year since 2003. Our latest newsletter examines Van's legacy and the constitutional challenge happening now.
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CPJP was honoured to welcome the Hon Mark Dreyfus KC MP to our event last week - just announced as Australia's Special Envoy for Int'l Human Rights. His message: "We can't be complacent... We must continue to pursue all avenues available to achieve the universal abolition of the death penalty."
The UN General Assembly's Third Committee adopted resolution A/C.3/80/L.30 (docs.un.org/en/A/C.3/80/...) on the human rights situation in the Islamic Republic of Iran by 79 votes in favour, 28 against, and 63 abstentions.
Our gala dinner silent auction is open online - no ticket needed! Bid on signed albums, artwork, a professional photo shoot & wine. Huge thanks to our generous donors! Closes 9pm TOMORROW (Wed Nov 19). All funds raised support CPJP's lifesaving work. cpjp.betterworld.org/auctions/cpj...
Just a handful of tickets remain for this in-person event in #Brisbane on Tuesday evening. Get your tickets via the link below!
Join us at this in-person event in #Brisbane (Tues 11 Nov, 5:30-7:30 pm) hosted by @jwmf.bsky.social to hear about the human cost of the death penalty in #Singapore, where 14 people have been executed in 2025, most for drug-related offences.
🎟️ $55 ($45 students): events.humanitix.com/between-two-...
Transnational repression - when States intimidate, harass or harm individuals outside their borders – isn’t new, but the term is gaining recognition.
Join us at this in-person event in #Brisbane (Tues 11 Nov, 5:30-7:30 pm) hosted by @jwmf.bsky.social to hear about the human cost of the death penalty in #Singapore, where 14 people have been executed in 2025, most for drug-related offences.
🎟️ $55 ($45 students): events.humanitix.com/between-two-...
(3/3) The death penalty for drug offences is no deterrent. Singapore would be better off without it: www.theonlinecitizen.com/2025/10/13/i...
(2/3) His open letter to Singapore’s President and Home Affairs Minister raises all the right questions: “What does this serve? What do the authorities actually want to achieve?” Hamzah deserves clemency.
(1/3) Hamzah bin Ibrahim is scheduled to be hanged in Singapore tomorrow for a non-violent drug offence, despite giving substantive assistance to investigating authorities: www.theonlinecitizen.com/2025/10/13/i...
Tomorrow, the Govt of Singapore plans to execute Hamzah bin Ibrahim for drug trafficking, despite his full cooperation with authorities. From death row, Hamzah raises troubling questions about what Singapore seeks to achieve.
His questions demand answers.
www.theonlinecitizen.com/2025/10/13/i...
The number of executions speak volumes of the crime against humanity taking place in Iran
#StopExecutionsInIran @drmaisato.bsky.social @dpruoxford.bsky.social
Join us - online & in-person (Kuala Lumpur) - to hear from 4 renowned capital defence lawyers on their efforts to provide legal representation to people on death row across the Asia-Pacific.
📍Co-Labs Coworking KL Sentral
💻 Zoom
Time: 7:30-8:30 PM (MYT) / 10:30-11:30 PM (AEDT)
@adpan.bsky.social
Submitting organisations: @adpan.bsky.social, @jwmf.bsky.social, @advhumanrights.bsky.social, Business Leaders Against the Death Penalty, Center for Prisoners' Rights, the Australian Civil Society Committe on UN Drug Policy and the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty. #NoDeathPenalty
On World Day Against the Death Penalty, we submitted with 7 partners to the UN Universal Periodic Review on Singapore. Since March 2022: 37 executions (12 this year), nearly all for drug offences. Our submission highlights alarming practices & calls for a moratorium.
www.cpjp.org.au/news/upr-sin...
