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EGYPT: FIVE HANGED FOR MURDER AND THEFT

27 April 2015 :

Authorities in Egypt have hanged five people convicted of murder and theft, the interior ministry said.
They were executed in a prison in the southern province of Assyut after the appeals process had been exhausted, a ministry statement said.
No more details were supplied about the individual cases.
 
(Sources: AFP, 27/04/2015)

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PAKISTAN: SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCES OF CHOTU GANG MEMBERS

05 May 2026

The Supreme Court of Pakistan on May 6, 2026 upheld the death sentences handed down to members of the notorious Chotu gang, dismissing a series of appeals against the Lahore High Court’s earlier confirmation of the punishment.

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IRAN - Jamal Hassanzadeh executed in Rasht on April 29

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IRAN - Qasem Nouri Roudini executed in Isfahan on May 4

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IRAN - Human rights lawyer Astareh Ansari arrested

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IRAN - 4 men executed in Isfahan on May 3

05 May 2026

Peyman Mohammadi, Mohammadreza Mohammadi, Abbas Rahimi Azar and Mehdi Badfar

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IRAN - 3 protesters hanged in Mashhad on May 3

05 May 2026

Ebrahim Dolatabadinejad, Mehdi Rasouli and Mohammadreza Miri

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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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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.