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NIGERIA: MAN WITH 80 WIVES SENTENCED TO DEATH

27 August 2008 :

an Islamic body in Nigeria issued a death sentence on a man who married 80 women when Islam allows a maximum of four, the Guardian newspaper reported. The Jamatu Nasril Islam, one of Nigeria's top Islamic bodies, said that Mohammadu Bello Masaba from the central Niger state stood condemned to death unless he divorced 76 of the women in four days.
 
(Sources: Montreal Gazette, 24/08/2008)

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SAUDI ARABIA: RECORD 340 DEATH SENTENCES EXECUTED IN 2025

16 December 2025

Saudi Arabia set a new record in 2025 for the number of death sentences executed in a single year. According to an AFP count, 340 people were executed in the kingdom this year.

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TANZANIA: THREE IMMIGRATION OFFICERS SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER KIGOMA KILLING

16 December 2025

Three immigration officers, Fredrick Kyomo, Joachim Trathizius, and Mabruki Hatibu, on December 15, 2025 were sentenced to death for the murder of Enos Elias

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IRAN - 3 men executed in Isfahan on December 15

16 December 2025

Milad Sheikhi + 2

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IRAN - Heidar Amiri executed in Sabzevar on December 15

16 December 2025  Read everything

IRAN - Milad Sheikhi executed in Isfahan on December 15

16 December 2025  Read everything

IRAN - Mohammad Bamari executed in Kerman on December 15

16 December 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.