IRAN - Abolfazl Bigzadeh and Rouhollah Sabzi were executed in Qom Central Prison on August 4

IRAN - Keyvan Rezagholi executed in Sanandaj Central Prison on August 10

IRAN - the case of Jamshid Sharmahd. The kidnapping of Iranian dissidents is becoming a regular occurrence.

IRAN - On August 5, the Supreme Court upheld a death sentence against political prisoner Heydar Ghorbani

China has sentenced a fourth Canadian citizen to death on drug charges in less than two years following a sharp downturn in ties over the arrest of an executive of Chinese tech giant Huawei.

A young woman was executed on 2 August 2020 in the Central Prison of Mashhad.

IRAN - Young woman, Mehri, was hanged in Mashhad on August 2.

Hands Off Cain considers the execution by hanging of Mostafa Salehi, one of the detainees for the anti-regime demonstrations that took place between December 2017 and January 2018, which took place yesterday in the Dastgerd prison in Isfahan, extremely serious.

China has sentenced a Canadian citizen to death on charges of manufacturing the drug ketamine amid heightened tension between the two countries.

Political prisoner Mostafa Salehi was hanged at dawn on 5 August 2020 in a prison in Isfahan.

Nuwara Eliya High Court on 4 August 2020 sentenced a man to death for the murder of his three and half year old daughter.

Turkey extradited a fugitive military officer who was allegedly behind a high-profile leak in the Algerian army, reports said on 4 August 2020.