• home
  • about us
    • Goals
    • What we have done
    • the statute
    • governing bodies
    • Appeals Awards Nobel
    • budgets
    • Contacts
    • congress
    • Etichs and Conduct for ngo
  • what we do
    • Annual report
    • thematic dossiers
    • Conferences in africa
    • Projects in progress
    • ONU Pro-moratorium resolution
    • Cities, provinces and regions
    • Our Network
    • Video
  • what you can do
    • Join us
    • donations
    • Buy publications
    • Sign the appeal
  • news
  • urgent actions
  • database
  • documents
  • projects
  • newsletter

IRAN: ONE WOMAN AND ONE MAN HANGED FOR DRUG-RELATED CHARGES

15 September 2014 :

A 60-year-old woman and a 31-year-old man were hanged in the prison of Rasht for drug trafficking, reported the Iranian State Broadcasting IRIB. The man was charged with possession and trafficking of 4,100 grams of crystal, and the woman with participation in buying, possession, trafficking and distribution of 3,198 grams of heroin. None of the prisoners were identified by name.
 
(Sources: Iran Human Rights, 11/09/2014)

other news

VIETNAM: WOMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR POISONING 4 FAMILY MEMBERS WITH CYANIDE

27 November 2025

A woman in Dong Nai Province in southern Vietnam was sentenced to death on November 27, 2025 for killing family members including two young children in a series of cyanide poisonings that shocked her community.

 Read everything

IRAN - Noushad Amiri executed in Qazvin on November 26

27 November 2025  Read everything

IRAN - Mahin Rahimi (a woman) and Seyed Javad Tabatabaei executed in Mashhad on November 26

27 November 2025  Read everything

IRAN - Sadegh Rafiei executed in Isfahan on November 26

27 November 2025  Read everything

IRAN - Hamid Yousefzahi executed in Shiraz on November 26

27 November 2025  Read everything

IRAN - Ali Saye-Afkan and Mehrdad Pourhassan executed in Rasht on November 26

27 November 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
All urgent actions 
 
 
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
All documents 
 
Privacy & Cookies - Contacts - Credits

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.