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ALGERIA. 300 TERRORISTS SENTENCED TO DEATH SINCE EARLY 2008

25 November 2008 :

the capital punishment sentences issued by the Algerian Justice system against people involved in terrorism cases since the beginning of the year are up to 300, including 257 issued by the Court of Boumerdès, in 64 cases.
The Boumerdes Court has dealt with as many as 651 cases linked to terrorism this year, an official source at the court said. The court also gave life term imprisonments to 102 terrorists, some of them in absentia.
 
(Sources: Elkhabar.com, The Media Line, 24/11/2008)

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TAIWAN: HIGH COURT OVERTURNS DEATH SENTENCE FOR MALAYSIAN STUDENT'S KILLER

29 January 2026

The Taiwan High Court Kaohsiung Branch on January 29, 2026 resentenced Liang Yu-chih to life imprisonment for the 2020 rape and murder of a Malaysian university student, overturning a previous death sentence after a court-ordered retrial.

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IRAN - Abolfazl Beig Mohammadi and Javad Haghighat Hanged in Zanjan on January 27

29 January 2026  Read everything

IRAN - Hashem Abbasi executed in Ahar on January 28

29 January 2026  Read everything

IRAN - 11 people executed on January 28

29 January 2026  Read everything

IRAN - 6 men executed in Rasht between 7 to 18 January

29 January 2026

Mehran Shokat, Mousa Rahbar, Taher Yazdani, Ali Zadakbari, Mansour Asghari + 1

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IRAN - Hrana Report on 32nd day of protests: 6,373 confirmed fatalities, 17,091 under review

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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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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.