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IRAN: THREE INMATES EXECUTED IN RAJA’I SHAHR AND ARDEBIL PRISONS

19 February 2019 :

At least three prisoners were executed on 13 February 2019 in Raja’i Shahr and Ardebil Prisons.
Ali Shakouri, 34, father of three, was hanged in Ardebil prison, northwest Iran.
Two other prisoners identified as Behrouz Bayat and Mohammad Hedayati were also executed on the same day in Raja’i Shahr Prison. All the three inmates had been found guilty of murder.

 
(Sources: HRM, 14/02/2019)

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BANGLADESH: COUPLE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPE AND MURDER OF GIRL

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On June 7, 2026, a trial court in Dhaka, Bangladesh, sentenced a couple to death for the rape and subsequent murder of eight-year-old Ramisa Akter.

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USA - ‘Death Row USA Winter 2026’

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USA - "Death Row USA Summer 2025" report

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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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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.