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IRAN. MAN PUBLICLY HANGED FOR MURDER

08 March 2006 :

an Iranian man convicted of murder was publicly hanged in southwestern Khuzestan province. The man, identified as Iraj D., was hanged in Shushtar for stabbing another man to death in Sharaft village.
 
(Sources: Agence France Presse, 07/03/2006)

other news

BULGARIA DELAYS EXTRADITION OF BEIRUT BLAST SUSPECT PENDING DEATH PENALTY ASSURANCES

17 November 2025

A Bulgarian court on November 10, 2025 postponed a hearing on Lebanon’s request to extradite Igor Grechushkin, the Russian-Cypriot ship operator linked to the 2020 Beirut port explosion that killed more than 200 people, pending assurances that he will not face the death penalty if extradited.

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EGYPT: WIFE SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER MURDERING HUSBAND, 6 CHILDREN IN MINYA

17 November 2025

The Minya Criminal Court in Upper Egypt on November 8, 2025 sentenced the defendant “Hajar”, 26, to death by hanging for killing her husband and his six children in the village of Dalija.

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IRAN Over 1,600 executions since the beginning of 2025.

17 November 2025

At least 52 were women

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IRAN - Shawkat Veysi, a woman, executed in Damghan on November 16

16 November 2025  Read everything

IRAN - Kamyar Fathi and Sajjad Hatami executed in Kermanshah on November 15

16 November 2025  Read everything

IRAN - Yarmorad Hasanvand executed in Khorramabad on November 15

16 November 2025  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

  •  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.