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IRAN - A woman, identified only as M. A., was hanged on January 30 in Nowshahr prison.

25 July 2019 :

A woman, identified only as M. A., was hanged on January 30 in Nowshahr prison. She had been on death row for six years. She is the 87th woman who is hanged during the term of Hassan Rouhani.

 
(Sources: women.ncr-iran.org)

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IRAN - 7 men executed

12 February 2026

Mohammadkaram Jafari, Hadi Momeni, Shahriyar Veysi, Mokhtar Ataei, Bahram Chamani, Biouk Namvarzad, Farhad Karimzadeh

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SOMALIA: MILITARY COURT EXECUTES TWO MEN CONVICTED OF MULTIPLE KILLINGS IN MOGADISHU

12 February 2026

Somalia’s Military Court on February 10, 2026 carried out the execution by firing squad of two men convicted of committing multiple killings in the capital, Mogadishu.

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IRAN - Hrana Report on Day 46 of the Protests: 7,002 confirmed deaths, 11,730 under investigation

12 February 2026

Conditional Releases, Arrest of Teachers, and European Parliament Session

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IRAN - Victim Accounts: Alireza Ghaleghafi, 22-Year-Old Law Student

12 February 2026  Read everything

IRAN - Victim Accounts: the Isfahan crackdown

12 February 2026  Read everything

IRAN - 19 more executions on February 9

11 February 2026

10 have already been reported. That makes a total of 29.

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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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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.