Hands Off Cain welcomes with satisfaction the interruption of the hunger strike of the Iranian lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, started to gain thresholds of freedom and democracy for all, but interrupted so as not to use the body as a weapon to be hurled against the opponent.

IRAN - Movid Savari, probably a child offender, was executed in Sepidar Prison on September 20.

IRAN - A woman, Mahtab Shafiei, has been executed at Rajai Shahr on September 23.

The Penang High Court on 24 September 2020 sentenced a mother and her boyfriend to death for the murder of her son in 2014.

A court run by the militant group Al-Shabaab in Middle Jubba region on 24 September 2020 publicly executed a man suspected to be a sorcerer.

A Barishal court on 24 September 2020 convicted a man and sentenced him to death for killing his wife in Hijla upazila in 2013 over dowry.

Kazakhstan has joined the international document to abolish the death penalty, Trend News Agency reported on 24 September 2020 with reference to Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The Iranian regime executed wrestling champion Navid Afkari on 12 September 2020.

Al-Shabaab on 31 May 2020 sentenced a man named Abukar Haji Omar, 50, to death and executed him on the outskirts of Qoryoley town, in the Lower Shebelle region.

According to Khorasan newspaper online, two men were executed in Mashhad Central Prison on 15 September 2020. The two prisoners who were sentenced to death for rape, were brothers.

The governor of Nigeria’s Kaduna state has signed a law saying men convicted of rape will face surgical castration, and anyone raping a child under age 14 will face the death penalty, AP reported on 17 September 2020.

A Pakistani court on 22 September 2020 handed death sentences to two accused and life imprisonment to four others in a 2012 factory fire case, court records and lawyers said.