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SRI LANKA: THREE SENTENCED TO DEATH IN HAMBANTOTA

15 September 2016 :

Three people were sentenced to death by the Hambantota Provincial High Court on charges of having murdered a man in Ambalantota on January 23, 1993.
A father of three, Mahaduruge Jayasena, had been hacked to death by the accused.
 
(Sources: dailymirror.lk, 01/09/2016)

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IRAN - Hengaw Special Report: protest crackdown amounts to crimes against humanity

24 January 2026

At least 3,000 civilians and protesters were killed. Hengaw estimates that approximately 500 members of government security forces were also killed

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IRAN - Hrana Report on 27th day of protests: 5,137 confirmed deaths, 12,904 still under investigation

24 January 2026  Read everything

USA - Texas. Tommy Lee Walker Declared Innocent 70 Years After His Execution

24 January 2026

Walker, a young African-American arrested in 1953 and executed in 1956

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USA - California. More un Lush’s campaign to commute California’s death row

24 January 2026  Read everything

UNITED NATIONS - UN advocates universal abolition of death penalty

24 January 2026  Read everything

UN EXPERTS PUSH FOR CODIFYING TALIBAN GENDER DISCRIMINATION AS CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY

24 January 2026

A group of United Nations experts on January 19, 2026 called on member states to recognize “gender apartheid” as a crime against humanity in a proposed international treaty

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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.