Oman - Universal Periodic Review - Death Penalty - July 2025

Date: June 17, 2025
Country: Oman
Partners: World Coalition Against the Death Penalty
Issues: Death Penalty
Mechanism: UN Universal Periodic Review
Report Type: Stakeholder Report

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This report addresses Oman’s compliance with its international human rights obligations regarding the death penalty and related issues, including gender-based violence, discrimination against women, and administration of justice and the right to a fair trial. Oman’s Penal Code does not limit the application of the death penalty to the “most serious crimes,” authorizing the death penalty for a wide range of offenses, including unintentional killings. Women remain particularly vulnerable to the death penalty in Oman, where courts lack clear mechanisms in capital cases to consider gender-specific defenses and mitigation factors such as coercive control and prolonged abuse.