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IRAN HANGS MAN CONVICTED OF MURDER

15 December 2008 :

Iran hanged a man convicted of murder in the northern city of Semnan, the state news agency IRNA reported.
The man, identified only as M. Sh., was hanged for murdering a woman in 2007, IRNA said, without specifying whether the execution took place in public or in prison.
 
(Sources: Agence France Presse, 13/12/2008)

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AFRICAN COURT ON HUMAN AND PEOPLES' RIGHTS AGAIN ORDERS TANZANIA TO ABOLISH MANDATORY DEATH PENALTY

09 June 2026

On June 5, 2026, the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights again ordered Tanzania to abolish the mandatory death penalty and hanging for defendants convicted of murder

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JORDAN: DRUG DEALER SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING THREE SECURITY PERSONNEL

09 June 2026

Jordan's state security court on June 7, 2026 sentenced to death a drug dealer convicted of killing three security personnel when they arrived to arrest him in the east of Amman.

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IRAN - Abuzar Negarestani executed on June 6

09 June 2026  Read everything

IRAN - Siavosh Afrashteh executed in Rasht on June 6

09 June 2026  Read everything

IRAN - 4 men executed in Isfahan

09 June 2026

Mohammad Ghasem Abdehvand, Rahim Ghanbari, Faraj Amjadi and Reza Pedram Asivand

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IRAN - Reza Pedram Asivand executed in Isfahan on May 5

09 June 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.