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SAUDI BEHEADED FOR DOUBLE MURDER

19 August 2009 :

a Saudi Arabian man who shot dead two compatriots was beheaded by the sword in the holy city of Mecca, the official SPA news agency reported. It quoted the interior ministry as saying the man, named as Ali Assiri, shot the two others dead in a dispute.
 
(Sources: Agence France Presse, 17/08/2009)

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KUWAIT HANGS 7 CONVICTS, SPARES 1

14 September 2025

Kuwait’s Ministry of Interior on September 11, 2025 executed seven convicts at the Central Prison, Al-Seyassah daily reported.

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SOMALIA: MILITARY TRIBUNAL EXECUTES 3 AL-SHABAAB TERRORISTS

14 September 2025

A military court in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, executed three al-Shabaab terrorists by firing squad on August 7, 2025 for carrying out killings and assassinations in the southwestern region of Lower Shabelle.

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IRAN - Behzad Parsa and Abdollah Mohseni executed in Gorgan on September 10

12 September 2025  Read everything

IRAN - Youssef Asadi Kahbad and Ahmad Bani Asad executed in Ahvaz on September 10

12 September 2025  Read everything

IRAN - Yasin Afshari executed in Qom on September 6

12 September 2025  Read everything

IRAN - Saman Abdoli executed in Dezful on September 9

12 September 2025  Read everything
 

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.