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UGANDA: COURT MAINTAINS DEATH SENTENCE

21 January 2011 :

the Ugandan Court of Appeal, led by Deputy Chief Justice, Alice Mpagi Bahegeine, upheld the death sentence of Alice Twikiriza for murdering her step daughter, Immaculate Mahura, 5, by drowning her in River Mpanga in 2001. She was sentenced by Justice Lamech Mukasa in the Fort Portal high court on February 11, 2005.
 
(Sources: UGPulse.com, 20/01/2011)

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EGYPT: COURT OF CASSATION UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE FOR ‘TAGAMOA KILLER’

17 March 2026

Egypt’s Court of Cassation issued a final and irrevocable ruling on March 15, 2026 upholding the death sentence for Karim Selim, known as the “Tagamoa killer,” for murdering three women and disposing their bodies in desert areas.

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PAKISTAN: TWO BROTHERS SENTENCED TO DOUBLE DEATH PENALTY

17 March 2026

Dera Ghazi Khan District and Sessions Judge Muhammad Abbas on March 14, 2026 delivered a verdict in a double murder case, sentencing two brothers to two death penalties each and a total fine of Rs2 million.

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IRAN - Five law enforcement personnel killed in armed attack in Sistan and Baluchestan

17 March 2026  Read everything

IRAN - Over 500 People Arrested for Sending Information to Media

17 March 2026  Read everything

IRAN - Hrana Report on 17th day of war

17 March 2026

Increase in Civilian Casualties

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IRAN - UN: report on the crackdown on the January protests.

17 March 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
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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.