a declaration on the death penalty was presented at the United Nations General Assembly in New York. The declaration was prepared by the EU on Italy’s initiative and was undersigned by 85 UN member states.

Iran publicly hanged three Afghan men convicted of rape. Gholam Hazrat, Shah Mir and Nour Ahmad were executed in the town of Rafsanjan, southern Kerman province.

an Afghan identified only by his first name as Vahid, 22, was hanged in Evin prison in Tehran, Iran, along with five other men convicted of murder. The report identified the men only as Hassangholi, Yadollah, Hossein, Mohammad-Hadi and Kheirollah.

an appeals court in Maryland ruled that state executions cannot proceed until a legislative panel reviews parts of the manual that spell out the protocol for lethal injections.

Secretary of Hands Off Cain Sergio D’Elia and Elisabetta Zamparutti, treasurer, made the following declaration in relation to the case of the five Bulgarian medics and the Palestinian doctor sentenced to death in Libya:

the President of the EU Commission José Manuel Barroso sharply condemned the death sentences against the Bulgarian nurses and the Palestine doctor confirmed today in Libya.

Iraqi authorities executed 13 men by hanging after they were convicted of murder and kidnapping, lining them up in hoods and green jumpsuits with their hands bound behind their backs.

on the execution by lethal injection of Angel Nives Diaz, who died in Florida following 34 minutes of agony, Sergio D’Elia, MP for the Rose in the Fist Party and Secretary of Hands Off Cain, declared:

a Libyan court sentenced five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor to death for deliberately infecting hundreds of children with the HIV virus that causes AIDS.

California's method of lethal injection for executions was ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge who said its risk of pain and discomfort to the condemned constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.

a press conference was held in Rome to mark the launch of the 2007 campaign for membership to the Radical Party and its umbrella organisations, including Hands Off Cain, to further the battle for civil and human rights.

Nur-eddin Ghulam Suroor