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SAUDI ARABIA: MAN BEHEADED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING

10 May 2013 :

Saudi authorities beheaded a Pakistani man found guilty of smuggling drugs into the kingdom, the interior ministry said.
The man was caught attempting to smuggle heroin hidden inside his stomach, the ministry said.
He was executed in Riyadh.
His beheading brings to 38 the number of people executed in Saudi Arabia since the beginning of the year, according to an AFP tally.
 
(Sources: AFP, 08/05/2013)

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PAKISTAN: PHC UPHOLDS MAN’S DEATH SENTENCE FOR KILLING MINOR DAUGHTER

02 July 2025

Peshawar High Court has upheld sentence of death awarded to a convict by a trial court for killing his five-year-old daughter over suspicion of her legitimacy, Dawn reported on June 30, 2025.

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SOUTH KOREA: TWO DEATH ROW INMATES DIE, LEAVING 57 REMAINING ON DEATH ROW

02 July 2025

The fact that two death row inmates died last year has been revealed belatedly. They died due to advanced age and illness while being in a state where capital punishment was not carried out for a long time.

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IRAN - Babak Mostafavi executed in Neyshabur on June 28

02 July 2025  Read everything

IRAN - 3 men executed in Isfahan on June 25

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IRAN - 1 woman, 2 men executed in Qom on June 24

02 July 2025  Read everything

IRAN - Javad Mohammadi executed in Khorramabad on June 24

02 July 2025  Read everything
 

Urgent actions

URGENT APPEAL BY HANDS OFF CAIN TO SAVE THE LIVES OF POLITICAL PRISONERS ON DEATH ROW

19 April 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.