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IRAN: JUVENILE HANGED FOR MURDER

05 November 2008 :

the judicial branch of Isfahan province in Iran announced it had carried out that morning the death sentence of Gholamreza H., an Afghan national convicted of murder.
The news release posted on its web site said that Gholamreza H. was 19 years old at the time of his execution and had been convicted of a murder committed on November 20, 2006, when he was 17.  
 
(Sources: HRW, 04/11/2008; Iran Human Rights, 30/10/2008)

other news

IRAQ: ISIS MEMBER SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER ATTACK ON SECURITY FORCES

20 April 2026

Iraq’s Central Criminal Court on April 14, 2026 sentenced an ISIS member to death

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SINGAPORE: MAN EXECUTED FOR IMPORTING OVER 1KG OF CANNABIS

20 April 2026

Convicted drug importer Omar Yacob Bamadhaj was hanged on April 16, 2026 for bringing 1,009.1g of cannabis into Singapore in July 2018.

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IRAQ: 11 ISIS MEMBERS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR PLOTTING ATTACKS ON STATE

19 April 2026

Iraq's Central Criminal Court sentenced 11 members of an ISIS cell to death on April 7, 2026 for plotting attacks on state institutions.

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IRAN - 22 People Arrested for “Connections with Foreign Media”

19 April 2026  Read everything

IRAN - 7 Citizens Arrested for “Connections with Foreign Media and Disturbing Public Opinion”

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IRAN - Critical health conditions of Narges Mohammadi

19 April 2026

And other political prisoners

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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
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  •   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.