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SAUDI ARABIA: NIGERIAN NATIONAL EXECUTED FOR RAPE

11 May 2009 :

a Nigerian national was executed in Saudi Arabia after being found guilty of sexually assaulting an elderly woman twice in her home, the Saudi Interior Ministry said in a statement carried by the official SPA news agency. The court found that on both occasions the accused was under the influence of hashish and illegal pills.
 
(Sources: Agence France Presse, 08/05/2009)

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KENYA: MACHARIA SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR DEFILING, KILLING 7-YEAR-OLD TAMARA KABURA

19 February 2026

Nyeri High Court on February 19, 2026 sentenced Nicholas Julius Macharia to death after he pleaded guilty to the brutal defilement and murder of seven-year-old Tamara Blessing Kabura.

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IRAN - Morteza Amiri and Shahrbanou Beykramiani could be deported from Turkey to Iran.

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IRAN - 26 Protesters Sentenced to Death, Hundreds More at Risk

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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
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  •   UN RESOLUTION 2022
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  •   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.