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IRAN. THREE MEN CONVICTED OF RAPE HANGED

22 November 2005 :

three Iranian men convicted of raping and kidnapping a male in his late teens were hanged in the western Iranian city of Kermanshah. The men -- only identified by their first names of Younes, Hossein, Ruhollah -- were hanged in a prison in the city. Reports only identified their victim as a 19-year-old male.
 
(Sources: Agence France Presse, 21/11/2005)

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ISRAEL PASSES DEATH PENALTY LAW FOR PALESTINIANS CONVICTED OF LETHAL ATTACKS

31 March 2026

Israel's parliament passed a law on March 30, 2026 making death by hanging a default sentence for Palestinians convicted in military courts of deadly attacks

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NIGERIA: KANO COURT SENTENCES TWO MEN TO DEATH FOR MURDER DURING ROBBERY

30 March 2026

A High Court in Kano on March 3, 2026 sentenced two men to death by hanging for killing a newly married man during a robbery.

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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

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.