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IRAN: THREE PUBLIC EXECUTIONS IN A DAY

26 February 2014 :

three prisoners were hanged in public in the neighbourhood of Islam in Abad Karaj on charge of Enmity with the God, reported the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA). The identities and ages of these prisoners were not disclosed. On 24 February, Hamid Yousefi and Arsalan Ghasemi had been transferred to the solitaries of Rajai Shahr prison to be executed. They are probably 2 of the executed ones.
 
(Sources: HRANA, 26/02/2014)

other news

INDIA: ANDHRA COURT AWARDS DEATH PENALTY TO 5 IN 2015 MURDER OF CHITTOOR MAYOR, HER HUSBAND

02 November 2025

Five persons accused of murdering Chittoor Mayor Katari Anuradha and her husband Mohan were sentenced to death by a sessions court in Andhra Pradesh on October 31, 2025.

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BANGLADESH: 7 YOUTHS SENTENCED TO DEATH IN DOUBLE MURDER CASE IN KHULNA

02 November 2025

A Khulna court on October 28, 2025 sentenced seven youths to death for killing Parvez Hawlader and Suprana Saha in the city's Daulatpur Paabla area on January 3, 2009.

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IRAN - Naser Mahidashti executed in Kerman on October 31

31 October 2025  Read everything

IRAN - Majid Shahpasandi was executed in Zanjan on October 29

31 October 2025  Read everything

IRAN - Mostafa Afshar executed in Malayer on October 27

31 October 2025  Read everything

IRAN - Amirhossein Zahedi executed in Mashhad on October 30

31 October 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
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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.