• home
  • about us
    • Goals
    • What we have done
    • the statute
    • governing bodies
    • Appeals Awards Nobel
    • budgets
    • Contacts
    • congress
    • Etichs and Conduct for ngo
  • what we do
    • Annual report
    • thematic dossiers
    • Conferences in africa
    • Projects in progress
    • ONU Pro-moratorium resolution
    • Cities, provinces and regions
    • Our Network
    • Video
  • what you can do
    • Join us
    • donations
    • Buy publications
    • Sign the appeal
  • news
  • urgent actions
  • database
  • documents
  • projects
  • newsletter

SRI LANKA: WOMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH

04 October 2012 :

In Sri Lanka, Colombo high court sentenced a woman to death for the possession and distribution of illegal drugs.
High court judge Preeti Padman Surasena ordered the death sentence as the charges against the accused were proved beyond reasonable doubt.
The  woman was previously arrested by the police narcotics bureau in 2002 in  the Maligawatte area for possession of 3.5 grams of heroin.
 
(Sources: sundaytimes.lk, 04/10/2012)

other news

SOMALIA: MILITARY COURT EXECUTES TWO MEN CONVICTED OF MULTIPLE KILLINGS IN MOGADISHU

12 February 2026

Somalia’s Military Court on February 10, 2026 carried out the execution by firing squad of two men convicted of committing multiple killings in the capital, Mogadishu.

 Read everything

IRAN - Hrana Report on Day 46 of the Protests: 7,002 confirmed deaths, 11,730 under investigation

12 February 2026

Conditional Releases, Arrest of Teachers, and European Parliament Session

 Read everything

IRAN - Victim Accounts: Alireza Ghaleghafi, 22-Year-Old Law Student

12 February 2026  Read everything

IRAN - Victim Accounts: the Isfahan crackdown

12 February 2026  Read everything

IRAN - 19 more executions on February 9

11 February 2026

10 have already been reported. That makes a total of 29.

 Read everything

IRAN - 107th Week of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” Campaign

11 February 2026  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
All urgent actions 
 
 
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
All documents 
 
Privacy & Cookies - Contacts - Credits

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.