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IRAN. CONVICTED RAPIST HANGED PUBLICLY

07 June 2005 :

Rahmatollah Ghanbarzehi Gorgich, an Iranian man convicted of raping a female student, was hanged in public in the southeastern city of Zahedan, in the Sistan-Baluchestan province.
Gorgich, 20, had been convicted of raping a university student he had picked up at a bus terminal in September 2004. It was reported that the execution was carried out at the same place.
 
(Sources: Agence France Presse, 22/05/2005)

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KUWAIT: FIVE CONVICTED MURDERERS EXECUTED AFTER DEATH SENTENCES UPHELD BY HIGHEST COURTS

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The public prosecution announced that it had supervised on June 20, 2026 evening the execution of death sentences against five men convicted of premeditated murder and other serious crimes at Central Prison

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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

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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.