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IRAN - A man, identified only as Reza, was hanged on April 22 at Vakilabad Prison.

01 July 2019 :

A man, identified only as Reza, was hanged on April 22 at Vakilabad Prison. The man, a Kurdish, was sentenced for murder in 2013.

 
(Source: HENGAW, ROKNA)

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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.

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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

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

30 June 2026  Read everything

SAUDI ARABIA: THREE SOMALI NATIONALS EXECUTED FOR HASHISH SMUGGLING

30 June 2026

Saudi Arabia on June 28, 2026 executed three Somali nationals convicted of smuggling hashish into the kingdom, the Interior Ministry said

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USA - Alabama. Jason Osborn’s conviction and death sentence reversed

29 June 2026  Read everything

USA - NLADA to Honor 33 Firms with the 2026 Beacon of Justice Award

29 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
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Giuseppe di Federico

Documents

  •  USA - Idaho. House committee passes death penalty for sex crimes on minors
  •  IRAN - Salman Aghaei executed in Shiraz on October 22
  •   CO-SPONSOR OF RESOLUTION PRO MORATORIUM
  •   VOTE ON A RESOLUTION ON A MORATORIUM ON EXECUTIONS APPROVED BY THE UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY IN 2022
  •   UN RESOLUTION 2022
  •  USA - Alabama. Corrections officials apparently botched Joe Nathan James' execution last month
  •   GOVERNING BODIES
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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.