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SAUDI ARABIA BEHEADS MAN FOR KILLING MOM, BROTHER

30 December 2008 :

A Saudi man was beheaded by the sword in the western city of Taif after being convicted of killing his mother and brother, the interior ministry said. The mother and brother burned to death, and a sister was injured, after Mohammed al-Sehimi set his family’s home on fire in the wake of an argument, the ministry said.
 
(Sources: Afp, 29/12/2008)

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AFGHANISTAN: TALIBAN PUBLICLY FLOGS NINE PEOPLE, INCLUDING FOUR WOMEN, IN BAMYAN AND KAPISA

24 December 2025

The Taliban publicly flogged nine people, including four women, in Bamyan and Kapisa provinces on charges of “illicit relationships” and “adultery,” the group’s supreme court announced

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IRAN - 9 men executed in various prisons on December 23

24 December 2025

Karim Yousefi, Saman Barzegar, Yazdan Jozipour, Safarali Sadeghi, Nejat Yari, Manouchehr Mahaki, Houshang Amiri, Qanbar Farhadi, Shirzad Chamani

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IRAN - Mohammadreza Madadi and Kazem Hamidi executed in Gorgan on December 22

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IRAN - Mahin Rashidi executed in Shiraz on December 17

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IRAN - Mahdieh Keyhani executed in Hamedan on December 23

24 December 2025  Read everything

IRAN - The execution of Javad Vafaei has been suspended

24 December 2025

Political prisoner

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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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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.