Egypt 1 sentenced to death for ordinary crimes

09 September 2018 :

April 2018: the Cairo Criminal Court sentenced one person to death for murder, which occurred in a fight following a traffic dispute.

 
https://eipr.org/en/press/2018/05/april-sees-15-cases-referred-mufti-and-various-preliminary-and-final-verdicts-death

other news

USA - Idaho. Firing squad becomes primary method of execution

02 July 2026

5 states use firing squads: Idaho, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Utah and South Carolina

 Read everything

IRAN - Rasoul Rasouli executed in Shiraz on July 1

02 July 2026  Read everything

IRAN - Shorsh Sattarzadeh executed in Sanandaj on July 1

02 July 2026  Read everything

BANGLADESH: 3 POLICE OFFICERS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING PROTESTERS IN 2024 UPRISING

01 July 2026

A special tribunal in Bangladesh on June 28, 2026 gave the death sentence in absentia to three police officers, including the former police chief of the capital Dhaka, in connection with the killing of protesters during a 2024 uprising that led to the collapse of the government.

 Read everything

MOROCCO TO HOST 10TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE ABOLITION OF THE DEATH PENALTY

30 June 2026

Morocco has announced that it will host the 10th International Conference on the Abolition of the Death Penalty

 Read everything

IRAN - Mohammad Ali Haji-Hassani and Mahmoud Ghaem executed in Yasui on June 22

30 June 2026  Read everything
 

Urgent actions

URGENT APPEAL BY HANDS OFF CAIN TO AVOID THE ERASING EVIDENCE OF 1980S EXECUTIONS BY DESTROYING BEHESHT-E-ZAHRA SECTION 41 IN IRAN

25 August 2025  Read everything
All urgent actions 
 
 
Giuseppe di Federico

Documents

All documents 
 
Privacy & Cookies - Contacts - Credits

Hands off Cain is an international league of citizens and parliamentarians for the abolition of the death penalty in the world. It is a non-profit, non-violent, transnational and trans-national Partito Radicale founded in Brussels in 1993 and recognized in 2005 by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a development co-operation NGO.