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CHINA: MAN GETS DEATH FOR DRUG OFFENCES

08 May 2009 :

Hong Kong national Yuen Wai-ming was sentenced to death by the Shenzhen Intermediate People's Court in China for drug trafficking and manufacturing, the Southern Metropolis Daily reported. Yuen, the leader of a drug-trafficking gang, was arrested in Shenzhen in 2007.
Officers seized about 19kg of drugs, two handguns and bullets.
 
(Sources: South China Morning Post, 07/05/2009)

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IRAN - At least nine people arrested for links to international media

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IRAN - Political prisoner Maryam Akbari Monfared released after 16 years

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Accused of being a member of the People’s Mojahedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI)

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SHEIKH HASINA ASKS BANGLADESH TRIBUNAL TO SET ASIDE DEATH SENTENCE, SEEKS FAIR TRIAL

08 April 2026

Former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has demanded in a legal communication to Bangladeshi authorities that the death sentence given to her by a tribunal last year be set aside as “legally void”, and that any further proceedings against her be conducted in compliance with international fair trial standards.

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USA - Alabama. Death penalty reinstated for Marcus Williams

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USA - Alabama. Cory Maples resentenced to LWOP

08 April 2026  Read everything

USA - California. Omar Deen's death sentence overturned

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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
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  •   UN RESOLUTION 2022
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  •   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.