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GAMBIA COURT HANDS DEATH PENALTY TO COUP PLOTTERS

16 July 2010 :

at a Gambian court, Judge Emmanuel Amadi sentenced eight people to death for plotting to overthrow the country's government. Six Gambian army officers, including the former chief of defence staff and former director of the national intelligence agency, were convicted of treason alongside a local businessman and a Gambia-based Lebanese businessman.
 
(Sources: Reuters, 15/07/2010)

other news

AFGHANISTAN: UN EXPERTS URGE TALIBAN TO REVOKE DECREE ON COURT RULES

16 April 2026

A group of United Nations human rights experts has called on the Taliban to rescind a sweeping decree governing criminal court procedures, warning that it could further erode fundamental rights and legal protections in Afghanistan.

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INDIA: SUPREME COURT STAYS THREE DEATH SENTENCES, ORDERS FULL MITIGATION INQUIRY

16 April 2026

A three-judge bench of the Indian Supreme Court on 13 April 2026, stayed a death sentence awarded to three convicts in a case from Dakshina Kannada.

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IRAN - Firouz Mohammadi Executed in Khorramabad on February 8

16 April 2026  Read everything

IRAN - Mohammad Nourani Gargari executed in Ardabil on March 1

16 April 2026  Read everything

IRAN - At Least 45 people arrested for ‘contacts with foreign media’.

16 April 2026  Read everything

IRAN - Woman Arrested for sending videos to foreign media

16 April 2026  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
  •  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.