IRAN - Unidentified prisoner hanged in Salmas on Sept. 26.

01 October 2019 :

Unidentified prisoner hanged in Salmas on Sept. 26. According to IHR sources, on the morning of September 26, a prisoner was hanged at the prison of Salmas city, West Azerbaijan province. “He was arrested six years ago for killing his cousin over farm-land and water dispute,” a well-informed source told IHR.

(Source: IHR)

other news

USA - Pentagon Official Rejects Plea Deal in U.S.S. Cole Bombing Case

07 February 2026

Guantanamo trial against Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri to begin in summer

Read everything

USA - New Hampshire. House committee rejects bills to bring back capital punishment

07 February 2026 Read everything

USA - New Analysis: Why Luigi Mangione can't be sentenced to death

07 February 2026 Read everything

Alabama - HB 41 expanding death penalty to child sex crimes passes Legislature

07 February 2026

Florida, Tennessee, Idaho, Oklahoma, and Mississippi enacted similar laws

Read everything

IRAN - Hrana Report on Day 41 of the Protests: 6,955 confirmed deaths, 11,630 under review

07 February 2026 Read everything

IRAN - Naser Bekrzadeh Sentenced to Death for the Third Time

07 February 2026

On charges of “espionage for Israel"

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

All urgent actions

Giuseppe di Federico

Documents

All documents

Privacy & Cookies - Contacts - Credits

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.