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IRAN. CHILD RAPIST HANGED IN PUBLIC

27 February 2007 :

a young man convicted of child rape was publicly hanged in Iran's central clerical capital of Qom, the Jomhouri Eslami newspaper reported.
Mohammad Sadeghi, 26, was sentenced to eight years in jail for kidnapping as well as receiving the death sentence for rape.
 
(Sources: AFP, 27/02/2007)

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INDIA: TWO SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MINOR GIRL’S GANGRAPE AND MURDER

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The Court of Special Judge (POCSO Act), Agra, on October 16, 2025, awarded death sentence to two accused for the kidnapping, gangrape and murder of a five-and-a-half-year-old minor girl last year.

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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

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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.