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IRAN. HANGED FOR MURDER

22 June 2005 :

an Iranian convicted of murdering a soldier during an armed robbery has been publicy hanged in Saravan, in the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchestan, Jam-e-Jam daily reported.
The man, identified as Khodabakhsh Bijarzehi, had a record of carrying out armed robberies in the region, the report said without specifying if the execution was carried out in public or in prison.
 
(Sources: Afp, 21/04/2005)

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IRAN - Sasan Azadvar, 21, faces imminent execution

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IRAN - Hanifeh Avandi executed in Tabriz on April 19

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KUWAIT: APPEAL COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCES FOR THREE IRANIANS IN DRUG CASE

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Kuwait’s Court of Appeal has upheld death sentences handed to three Iranian nationals convicted of attempting to smuggle large quantities of drugs into the country, Gulf News reported on April 30, 2026.

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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

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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.