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IRAN: THREE PRISONERS HANGED PUBLICLY

22 January 2015 :

Three prisoners were hanged in public in the town of Bonab, reported the Iranian state media. According to the state run Iranian news agency Mehr, the prisoners were convicted of kidnapping and murdering a 12 year old girl in October 2014.
According to a local website the prisoners were identified as “Hamed”, “Siyavash” and “Ali”. The report didn’t mention how old the men were.
 
(Sources: Iran Human Rights, 21/01/2015)

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A High Court of Kogi State, Nigeria, on June 16, 2026 imposed the death penalty on a man prosecuted for kidnapping and murdering his neighbour, who ran a hotel in Obajana.

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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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Documents

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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.