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SAUDI ARABIA: A PAKISTANI MAN EXECUTED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING

02 January 2014 :

Saudi authorities beheaded a Pakistani man after he was convicted of smuggling drugs into the kingdom, the interior ministry announced.
Zufar Iqbal Mohammed Khan was arrested as he was smuggling a large amount of heroin into the kingdom, said a statement carried by the SPA news agency.
He had admitted to the allegations during interrogation and was executed in Riyadh, becoming the 78th person to be executed in Saudi Arabia in 2013, according to an AFP count.
 
(Sources: naharnet.com, 31/12/2013)

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INDIA: BOMBAY HIGH COURT COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCE OF TWO CONVICTS IN NASHIK KIDNAPPING-MURDER CASE

28 June 2026

The Bombay High Court has commuted the death sentences of two men convicted in the 2013 kidnapping and murder of 22-year-old youth from Ozar area of Nashik district in Maharashtra, ETV reported on June 26, 2026.

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IRAN - Khosrow Ahadi executed in Kermanshah on June 21

28 June 2026  Read everything

IRAN - Khalil Panahi executed in Semnan on June 21

28 June 2026  Read everything

IRAN - Hadi and Fazlollah Nikbakht sentenced to death

28 June 2026

Political prisoners. A third brother, Mohammad, is facing the same risk

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FRANCE - 9th World Congress Against the Death Penalty

27 June 2026  Read everything

USA - Florida. Dusty Ray Spencer, 74, White, was executed on June 25

27 June 2026

Oldest inmate put to death in state’s modern history

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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.