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IRAN: THREE HUNG FOR DRUGS IN ISFAHAN

16 July 2009 :

three men were hanged in a prison in Isfahan, Iran, for drug trafficking. The executions were reported in the Etemad newspaper. The three were identified as Hossein, 45, found guilty of trafficking 143 kg of opium; Nasser, 35, found in possession of 725 gr of crack; and Mohammad Reza, for possession of 'a huge quantity of opium.'
 
(Sources: ANSA, 15/07/2009)

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

22 June 2026

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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  •  USA - Idaho. House committee passes death penalty for sex crimes on minors
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  •   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.