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SAUDI ARABIA. SAUDI MAN BEHEADED FOR MURDER

11 March 2008 :

a Saudi Arabian national who stabbed another man to death in an argument was beheaded. Mashari Bin Ali al-Balwy was executed in the northern city of Tabuk, the Saudi Interior Ministry said.
 
(Sources: Sunday Mail, 09/03/2008)

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TANZANIA: WOMAN HAS SENTENCE QUASHED AFTER OVER A DECADE ON DEATH ROW

19 March 2026

A woman with severe intellectual disabilities in Tanzania has had her conviction and death sentence quashed after spending more than a decade in prison awaiting execution.

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JAPAN: COURT RULES KYOANI KILLER'S WITHDRAWAL OF DEATH SENTENCE APPEAL WAS VALID

19 March 2026

The Osaka High Court ruled on March 17, 2026 that a defendant's withdrawal of his appeal against a death sentence in the Kyoto Animation arson-murder case is valid.

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AFGHANISTAN: TALIBAN FLOG 21 PEOPLE IN KABUL IN ONE DAY

18 March 2026

Taliban lashed 21 people in Kabul on March 15, 2026 on charges of drug-related offenses, according to a statement from the Taliban-run Supreme Court.

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IRAN - Hengaw Report on 18th day of war

18 March 2026

Death toll hits 5,300, including 511 civilians

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IRAN - Hengaw Report on Kurdistan during the war

18 March 2026

Civilian spaces in Kurdistan militarized amid escalating security measures

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IRAN - Hrana Report on 18th day of war

18 March 2026

Report of 179 Strikes

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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.