news - 17 November 2025 - EGYPT

EGYPT: WIFE SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER MURDERING HUSBAND, 6 CHILDREN IN MINYA

The Minya Criminal Court in Upper Egypt on November 8, 2025 sentenced the defendant “Hajar”, 26, to death by hanging for killing her husband and his six children in the village of Dalija.

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news - 17 November 2025 - IRAN

IRAN Over 1,600 executions since the beginning of 2025.

At least 52 were women

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news - 16 November 2025 - IRAN

IRAN - Shawkat Veysi, a woman, executed in Damghan on November 16

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IRAN - Kamyar Fathi and Sajjad Hatami executed in Kermanshah on November 15

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IRAN - Yarmorad Hasanvand executed in Khorramabad on November 15

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IRAN - Nour-Mohammad Rahmati executed in Aligudarz on November 15

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IRAN - Jaber Saki and Jahan Rasouli executed in Dezful on November 15

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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

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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.