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UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY APPROVES ‘MORATORIUM ON THE USE OF THE DEATH PENALTY’ RESOLUTION

18 December 2022 :

The United Nations General Assembly on 15 December 2022 approved the ninth resolution for the universal moratorium on capital punishment.
125 votes in favour (3 more than in 2020), 37 against (one less than in 2020) and 22 abstentions (there were 24 in 2020).

 

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IRAN - Hrana Report on 13th day of war

13 March 2026

More Than Three Million Displaced

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IRAN - More than 100 security forces killed in Sanandaj

13 March 2026

Iranian media have so far refrained from reporting these casualties

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SINGAPOREANS’ SUPPORT FOR DEATH PENALTY IN DRUG TRAFFICKING CASES RISES TO 77PC, SAYS MINISTER

12 March 2026

Public support in Singapore for the mandatory death penalty for serious drug trafficking offences has risen, the country’s Coordinating Minister for National Security K Shanmugam reportedly said on March 12, 2026.

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IRAN - Hrana Report: 195 Arrested on Espionage Allegations

12 March 2026

For posting videos on social media

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IRAN - Hrana Report on 12th day of war

12 March 2026

39 Percent of Strikes Concentrated in Tehran

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USA - Dale Baich: A defender on death row

12 March 2026

Dale Baich has watched 16 men die

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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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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.