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DOUBLE KILLER HANGED IN IRAN

04 December 2008 :

A man convicted of killing two people was hanged in prison in the central city of Isfahan, Iran.
The murderer was identified as Mehdi, 28, in the report in Iran newspaper, which said the killer struck at his victims' home two years ago during a robbery attempt.
 
(Sources: ANSA, 04/12/2008)

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TANZANIA - Update on the situation of Tundu Lissu

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Lissu's vicissitudes brought to the Venice Film Festival

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INDIA: DEATH PENALTY FOR MAN WHO BURNT ALIVE WIFE OVER SKIN COLOUR

03 September 2025

A court in India on August 30, 2025 gave the death penalty to a man for burning alive his wife over her skin colour.

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IRAN - Mohammad Babaei executed in Sanandaj on 2 September

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IRAN - Jasem Nowruzi executed in Arak on August 31

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IRAN - Bijan Hosseinpanah executed in Zanjan on September 2

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IRAN - Houman Geravand executed in Karaj on September 2

03 September 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
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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
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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.