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IRAN: PRISONER EXECUTED IN SANANDAJ

18 September 2015 :

Iran's fundamentalist regime hanged a prisoner in the Kurdish city of Sanandaj, western Iran.
The prisoner, identified as Raouf Hosseini, was hanged at dawn in Sanadaj's central prison.
He had been on death row for the past 13 years.
 
(Source: NCR-Iran, September 16, 2015)

other news

MALAYSIA: DEATH PENALTY NOT NEEDED FOR DRINK DRIVING CASES, SAYS TRANSPORT MINISTER

14 April 2026

Malaysia’s Transport minister Loke Siew Fook on April 13, 2026 shut the door on the possibility of introducing the death penalty under the Road Transport Act for cases linked to driving under the influence, despite calls from certain quarters to do so.

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IRAN - 2025 Annual Report on the Death Penalty in Iran

14 April 2026

At least 1,639 people executed

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IRAN - Foreword to the 2025 Annual Report on the Death Penalty in Iran

14 April 2026

By Nasrin Sotoudeh

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IRAN - 10 People Arrested for Using Starlink

14 April 2026  Read everything

IRAN - 4 protesters sentenced to death

14 April 2026

Mohammadreza Majidi-Asl, Bita Hemmati, Behrouz Zamaninejad, and Kourosh Zamaninejad

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IRAN - Zeinab Shafizadeh Arrested

14 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.