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IRAN - Mostafa Shiri hanged at Zanjan prison on July 8.

14 July 2019 :

Mostafa Shiri hanged at Zanjan prison on July 8. According to IHR sources, on the morning of Monday, July 8, a man was hanged at Zanjan prison. He is identified by IHR sources as Mostafa Shiri, 42, a resident of Marand. Mr Shiri was sentenced to death for murder charges and spent 5 years in prison before his execution. His execution is not announced by Iranian media or authorities so far.

 
(Source: IHR)

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BANGLADESH: 5 TO DIE FOR MURDER OF GOPALGANJ TRANSPORT UNION LEADER BASU

28 January 2026

A Dhaka court on January 28, 2026 sentenced five people to death for the 2016 murder of Saidur Rahman Basu, a former president of the Gopalganj Motor Workers Union.

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IRAN - Hrana Report on 31st day of protests: 6,221 confirmed deaths, 17,091 under investigation

28 January 2026  Read everything

IRAN - Taher Malekshahi, a 12-year-old boy, lost one eye

28 January 2026

After being intentionally shot in the face

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IRAN - 9 people executed on January 27

28 January 2026

Karim Enhesari, Mehran Akhbari, Mehdi Balali, Abbas Karami, Ghobad Fathi, Mojtaba Azizi, Sanjar Dolat-Rashid, Khodakaram Moradi, and Rajabali Nourzad

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IRAN - Mehrdad Yaghoubi-Mehr killed in Tehran on 8 January

28 January 2026  Read everything

IRAN - 10 men executed on January 26

27 January 2026  Read everything
 

Urgent actions

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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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.