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CONGO OVERRULES NORWEGIANS’ DEATH SENTENCES

09 December 2009 :

the death sentence of the two Norwegians sentenced by the military court of Kisangani town in Orientale Province in the Democratic Republic of Congo was quashed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. A communique from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that they will not receive the death sentence and that Foreign Minister Alexis Tambwe Mwamba assured that they will seek other punishments.
 
(Sources: BBC, 06/12/2009)

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BANGLADESH: WIFE, TWO OTHERS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING MAN IN CTG

14 July 2025

A Chattogram court on July 14, 2025 sentenced a woman and two others to death for killing her husband over an extramarital relationship in 2021.

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NIGERIA: FOUR SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING DRIVER

14 July 2025

A Bayelsa State High Court sitting in Yenagoa has sentenced four men to death for the murder of a taxi driver, Mr Olarenwaju Ajayi, sometime in 2001.

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IRAN - Fereydoun Naziri and Hadi Nasri executed in Qom on June 24

12 July 2025  Read everything

IRAN - Mohammad Tayeb Abdollahi and Naser Kazemzadeh executed in Shiraz on July 9

12 July 2025  Read everything

IRAN - 3 men executed in Zanjan on July 8

12 July 2025

Alireza Bagheri, Mehran Habibi and Esmail Valipour

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IRAN - Ilia Khalifehzadeh executed in public on July 12

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Urgent actions

URGENT APPEAL BY HANDS OFF CAIN TO SAVE THE LIVES OF POLITICAL PRISONERS ON DEATH ROW

19 April 2025  Read everything
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Giuseppe di Federico

Documents

  •  USA - Idaho. House committee passes death penalty for sex crimes on minors
  •  IRAN - Salman Aghaei executed in Shiraz on October 22
  •   CO-SPONSOR OF RESOLUTION PRO MORATORIUM
  •   VOTE ON A RESOLUTION ON A MORATORIUM ON EXECUTIONS APPROVED BY THE UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY IN 2022
  •   UN RESOLUTION 2022
  •  USA - Alabama. Corrections officials apparently botched Joe Nathan James' execution last month
  •   GOVERNING BODIES
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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.