Death row prisoners on hunger strike at Welikada prison, Colombo, June 2021 Foreign Nationals While accurate data was only found on six foreign nationals in Sri Lanka, there are likely to be many more. All of the foreign national cases found were from other South Asian countries: four were from Nepal, and one each from India and Pakistan. All of the foreign national cases were men, and all were sentenced to death for traf cking drugs to Sri Lanka. Harm Reduction International estimates that more than 60 people on death row (5% of the total) are convicted of drug offences. Both the United Nations Of ce on Drugs and Crime (2010), and the International Narcotics Control Board (2014) have urged states to abolish the death penalty for drug offences. However, Sri Lanka not only continues to retain the death penalty for drug offences, but actively sentences people to death for such offences. Acknowledgements With special thanks to the following organisations and individuals who lent their considerable assistance and expertise towards this research in Sri Lanka: Harm Reduction International, Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka, Pramod Archarya, Ambika Satkunanathan, Karan Tripathi, among others. Death Penalty Research Unit, University of Oxford For more research see: fi fi foreign-nationals.uwazi.io or tinyurl.com/mappingdeathrow