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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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UGANDA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING FOUR CHILDREN AT NURSERY

04 May 2026

A Ugandan court on April 30, 2026 sentenced a man to death for killing four children at a nursery school, in the capital, Kampala, earlier this month.

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IRAN - 4 ‘protesters’ sentenced to death

04 May 2026

Hamidreza Fathi, Abdolreza Fathi, Saeed Zarei Kordshouli, and Hamidreza Sabetray

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IRAN - Javad Alikurdi remains detained five months after arrest over brother’s death

04 May 2026  Read everything

IRAN - One month on, no information on Masoumeh Azhini

04 May 2026  Read everything

IRAN - Mehrab Abdollahzadeh giustiziato a Urmia il 3 maggio

03 May 2026

Arrestato durante le proteste del movimento «Donne, Vita, Libertà»

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USA - South Carolina. John Richard Wood is mentally ill and can’t be executed

03 May 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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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.