a man, identified only by the initials H.D., was hanged in the southern Iranian town of Minab on charges of drug smuggling. The report in the "Kayhan" newspaper did not say whether the execution was carried out in public.

a 19-year-old unidentified man convicted of raping a 16-year-old boy was hanged in Iran's northeastern city of Mashhad, the Khorasan newspaper reported. He was executed in the city’s central prison, the report added.

Iran hanged a man, identified by the initials HS, for murdering an eight-year-old boy in Qom who was on his way from home to a nearby grocery shop, the Fars news agency reported. He was hanged in a prison in Qom in the presence of the victim's family.

the 2011 Report on the death penalty worldwide, supervised again this year by Elisabetta Zamparutti, was presented at the headquarters of Hands Off Cain. Foreign Minister Franco Frattini, Education Minister and Transitional Tunisian Government spokesperson Taïeb Baccouche, Senate Vice President Emma Bonino, HOC President Marco Pannella, HOC Secretary Sergio D’Elia, and Elisabetta Zamparutti all participated at the conference.

The presentation of the report was attended by Taieb Baccouche, Education minister and Tunisian transitional Government spokesperson. The 2011 Hands Off Cain Report confirms the positive evolution towards the abolition of the death penalty.

the Hands Off Cain 2011 Report, presented today, contains the most important facts regarding the practice of the death penalty in 2010 and the first six months of 2011.

Mohammad Mandazahi, son of Dadkha, was hanged in Kerman’s central prison, Iran.

Hands Off Cain is an international association that, together with the Radical Party, is conducting a campaign for a moratorium on capital punishment. It is with pleasure that we invite you to the presentation of our 2011 Report “The Death Penalty Worldwide”. The presentation will be held on August 4 at 11.30am, at our headquarters in Rome, at 76 Via di Torre Argentina (third floor). In attendance will be Foreign Minister Franco Frattini and Taïeb Baccouche, Education Minister and spokesperson of the Transitional Tunisian Government.

Japanese Justice Minister Satsuki Eda indicated his intention not to authorize the execution of death row

a 58-year-old Singaporean man was sentenced to death by the High Court in Malaysia for drug

In Japan a high court upheld a lower court ruling that handed the death penalty to a man over

four friends were sentenced to death by Judicial Commissioner Mohd Zaki Abdul Wahab of the