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SAUDI ARABIA: HIGHEST EXECUTION TOLL IN DECADES AS AUTHORITIES PUT TO DEATH 198 PEOPLE 01 October 2024 Saudi Arabian authorities have put to death over 198 individuals so far in 2024, the highest number of executions recorded in the country since 1990, Amnesty International said on September 28, 2024.  Read everything

INDIA: ARUNACHAL SCHOOL HOSTEL WARDEN GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR SEXUALLY ASSAULTING 21 STUDENTS

01 October 2024

A special court in Arunachal Pradesh handed the death sentence on September 26, 2024 to a hostel warden convicted for sexual assault of 21 students at a government-run residential school from 2014 to 2022.

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IRAN - 5 men executed in Shiraz on September 16

01 October 2024

Amir Naderzadeh, Sajad Fadayi, Abdollah Abdolsamad, Behzad Bagheri and Mobasher …

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IRAN - 4 men were executed in Shiraz on September 18

01 October 2024

Shahin Salami, Sepehr Nourani, Taher Arezoumand and Kamran Heidari

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IRAN - 4 men executed in Shiraz Central Prison (Adel Abad) on September 23

01 October 2024

Hassan Nejati, Mohammadreza Nejati, Fardin Ahmadi, and Amin Shahabi

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IRAN - 2 men executed in Shiraz on September 25

01 October 2024

Rasoul Shenbandi and Akbar Saadi-Khani

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IRAN - 4 men executed in Rasht on September 11 and 23

01 October 2024

Mostafa Amani, Nasrollah Pirasteh, Arman Atayi and Ramin Poursafar

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IRAN - Yasin Darvishi executed in Gorgan on September 18

01 October 2024  Read everything

IRAN - Public hanging of two unnamed men

30 September 2024  Read everything

IRAN - Khodamorad Zandi executed in Boroujerd on September 23

30 September 2024  Read everything

IRAN - Mahmoud Ataei executed in Isfahan on September 26

30 September 2024  Read everything

IRAN - Milad Ekhlaspour executed in Kerman on September 26

30 September 2024  Read everything

IRAN - Kambakhsh Mahmoudi executed in Kermanshah on September 25

30 September 2024  Read everything
 
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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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