Year
How to use the database
HANDS OFF CAIN’S 2015 REPORT
The worldwide situation (as of 30 June 2016)
EXECUTIONS IN 2014
EXECUTIONS IN 2015 (as of 30 June)
The most important facts of 2015 (and the first six months of 2016)
ADDRESS of Pope Francis
THE SMILING FACE OF THE MULLAHS
Reportage by Sergio D'Elia
ANALYSIS OF THE 2015 REPORT DATA AND OBJECTIVES OF HANDS OFF CAIN
Reportage by Marco Perduca
"THE ABOLITIONIST OF THE YEAR 2015” AWARD
Protocol of understanding between NTC and CNF
Dossier on death penalty and homosexuality
Final declaration of the Cairo workshop
Goals
Achievements
GENERAL MOTION OF THE FIFTH CONGRESS OF HOC
RESOLUTION OF THE KIGALI CONFERENCE
U.N. RESOLUTION 2014

U.N. RESOLUTION 2012
U.N. RESOLUTION 2010

REPORT ON THE 2ND ANNUAL EU FORUM ON THE DEATH PENALTY IN ZAMBIA

Videos

DECLARATION OF LIBREVILLE

Publications
Hands Off Cain Headquarters
U.N. RESOLUTION 2008

U.N. RESOLUTION 2007

Appeal To The United Nations
Board of Directors

LETHAL TRADE DOSSIER
2014 FREETOWN CONFERENCE Final Declaration
THE COTONOU DECLARATION 2014
DOSSIER IRAQ 2003

DOSSIER ON MORATORIUM
DOSSIER IRAQ 2012

DOSSIER USA 2011

NOBEL LAUREATES APPEAL
Bulletin Board
Sign up
Join appeal
Newsletter
Our Publications

BANGLADESH: HIGH COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCES FOR 20 MEN WHO MURDERED STUDENT OVER FACEBOOK POST

March 18, 2025:

A High Court in Bangladesh on March 16, 2025 upheld the death sentence of 20 men convicted of killing a fellow student seven years ago inside a university campus.
Abrar Fahad, a 21-year-old student at the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), was killed in October 2019, hours after publishing a Facebook post criticising the then Sheikh Hasina government's water-sharing treaty with India.
Massive protests erupted in Bangladesh after he was beaten to death with cricket bats and skipping ropes by a group of 25 students who were members of the Bangladesh Chhatra League – the banned student wing of Ms Hasina's Awami League party.
The second-year college student's body was found on a stairway at the university dormitory. An autopsy showed that he had been bludgeoned with blunt objects and had extensive bruises on his hands, legs and back.
The mass protests forced Ms Hasina to pledge the highest punishment for the perpetrators. The group of 20 were sentenced to death by a lower court in 2021.
A High Court bench of judge AKM Asaduzzaman and judge Syed Enayet Hossain on March 16 upheld the death sentence of 20 men and life in prison for five others. Four of the 20 men sentenced to death were still at large. One of the convicts, Muntasir Al Jamie, broke through the prison wall of a high-security jail in August 2024 during the anti-government mass protests.
“I am satisfied. I hope the legal procedures will be completed soon, and justice will be served,” Fahad’s father, Barkat Ullah, told reporters after the verdict.
“I don’t want to blame the parents who sent their sons to the top university, but they got involved in bad politics. I would urge others to stay away from harmful activities,” he added.
He urged students to not "engage in bad politics". "Parents send their children to educational institutions and work hard so that the children have education. However, when children go astray, giving in to temptation, parents are deeply hurt," he added.
Abrar Faiyaz, the victim's younger brother, said that the family did not think even a year ago that the High Court verdict would be delivered "so soon". "It may have been possible because of the changeover on 5 August last year. However, there is still a lot to be done."
Bangladesh is run by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, who was appointed as the chief advisor, after Ms Hasina’s ouster last year following a violent anti-government uprising.
Mr Faiyaz added that if verdicts are implemented fast, it will act as a deterrent. "No one else should have the same fate as Abrar Fahad," he added.
The lawyers for some of the defendants said they would appeal against the verdict. "After the appeals are filed, the execution of the death sentence will be suspended," Azizur Rahman Dulu, the lawyer for two of the convicts, told the Daily Star.

IRAN - Hamid Hosseinnezhad Heydaranlou at imminent risk of execution
CHINA: SCHOOL BUS STOP MURDERER EXECUTED
GAMBIA COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCE OVER JAMMEH-ERA KILLING OF FINANCE MINISTER
IRAN - Amirhossein Maghsoudlou (Tataloo) Sentenced to Death
INDIA: THREE GET CAPITAL PUNISHMENT FOR MURDERING FIVE IN SINDHANUR
IRAN - 64th Week of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” Campaign
IRAN - 3 men executed in Karaj (central) on April 15
IRAN - Rahim Rahimnejad executed in Kerman on April 15
IRAN - Death Sentence of Naser Bakarzadeh Overturned
IRAN - Abubakr Shahbakhsh executed in Kerman on April 15
IRAN - Saeed Abbasi executed in Kermanshah on April 15
IRAN - Mehdi Motavalli and Gholamali Mashallahi executed in Arak on April 15
AFGHANISTAN: TALIBAN FLOG 13 PEOPLE, INCLUDING FIVE WOMEN, IN KHOST AND JAWZJAN
IRAN - Feizollah Karami and Sohrab Heydari Hanged in Qom on April 15
SAUDI ARABIA: AFGHAN MAN EXECUTED IN MECCA FOR SMUGGLING HEROIN
IRAN - Ali Faza Doustiani executed in Karaj (Central) on April 15
IRAN - Sohrab Heydari executed in Qom on April 15
IRAN - 3 men executed in Bandar Abbas on April 15
IRAN - Regime Cleric Struggles to Justify 1988 Mass Executions
AFGHANISTAN: FOUR MEN PUBLICLY EXECUTED IN ONE DAY
IRAN - Ali Balochzehi executed in Zahedan on April 14
IRAN - Ahmad Boghlani Hanged in Borazjan on April 14
IRAN - Ali Dehani hanged in Zahedan on April 14
VIETNAM TO REPLACE DEATH PENALTY WITH LIFE IMPRISONMENT WITHOUT PAROLE
IRAN - 3 men executed in Zahedan on April 13
IRAN - 4 men executed in Zahedan on April 12
IRAN - Rabi Shah-Morad and Wasim Ahmad executed in Qazvin on April 12
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL: GLOBAL RECORDED EXECUTIONS HIT THEIR HIGHEST FIGURE SINCE 2015
USA - South Carolina. Mikal Mahdi, 42, Black, was executed
USA - Military Judge Throws Out Sept. 11 Case Confession as Obtained Through Torture

1 2 3 [Succ >>]
2025
january
february
march
april
  2024
january
february
march
april
may
june
july
august
september
october
november
december
  2023
january
february
march
april
may
june
july
august
september
october
november
december
  2022
january
february
march
april
may
june
july
august
september
october
november
december
  2021
january
february
march
april
may
june
july
august
september
october
november
december
 
2020
january
february
march
april
may
june
july
august
september
october
november
december
  2019
january
february
march
april
may
june
july
august
september
october
november
december
  2018
january
february
march
april
may
june
july
august
september
october
november
december
  2017
january
february
march
april
may
june
july
august
september
october
november
december
  2016
january
february
march
april
may
june
july
august
september
october
november
december
  2015
january
february
march
april
may
june
july
august
september
october
november
december
 
2014
january
february
march
april
may
june
july
august
september
october
november
december
  2013
january
february
march
april
may
june
july
august
september
october
november
december
  2012
january
february
march
april
may
june
july
august
september
october
november
december
  2011
january
february
march
april
may
june
july
august
september
october
november
december
  2010
january
february
march
april
may
june
july
august
september
october
november
december
  2009
january
february
march
april
may
june
july
august
september
october
november
december
 
2008
january
february
march
april
may
june
july
august
september
october
november
december
  2007
january
february
march
april
may
june
july
august
september
october
november
december
  2006
january
february
march
april
may
june
july
august
september
october
november
december
  2005
january
february
march
april
may
june
july
august
september
october
november
december
  2004
january
february
march
april
may
june
july
august
september
october
november
december
 
IRAN - Wife of Djalali pleads for EU action
  IRAN - Hands off Cain Year End Report: At least 284 executions in 2020  
  IRAN: HANDS OFF CAIN, THE HANGING OF THE PROTESTER MOSTAFA SALEHI IS A SHAME FOR THE SO-CALLED DEMOCRATIC WORLD   
  USA: ‘BLACK LIVES MATTER’, BUT IS IT ONLY RACISM?  
  IRAN. HANDS OFF CAIN, REDUCTION OF DRUG EXECUTIONS BUT NUMBERS REMAIN WORRISOME  
  HUMAN RIGHTS: DEMONSTRATION OF THE RADICAL PARTY BEFORE IRANIAN EMBASSY 14 FEBRUARY  
news
-
latest actions
-
data base
-
actions
-
who we are
-
registered users
-
credits