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IRAN: PRISONER EXECUTED IN SANANDAJ

18 September 2015 :

Iran's fundamentalist regime hanged a prisoner in the Kurdish city of Sanandaj, western Iran.
The prisoner, identified as Raouf Hosseini, was hanged at dawn in Sanadaj's central prison.
He had been on death row for the past 13 years.
 
(Source: NCR-Iran, September 16, 2015)

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SRI LANKA: DEATH SENTENCE OVERTURNED FOR 80-YEAR-OLD WOMAN IN 1993 MURDER

21 July 2025

An 80-year-old woman who had been sentenced to death in Sri Lanka by the Hambantota High Court for a 1993 murder was acquitted and released by the Court of Appeal on July 18, 2025 bringing an end to a 32-year legal battle.

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IRAN - Davoud Amani executed in Zanjan on July 19

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IRAN Yaghoub Moradi executed in Gorgan on July 15

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IRAN - Parviz Sarlak executed in Aligudarz on July 19

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IRAN - Molan Abdolaziz Khani and Vahab Heidari executed in Qazvin on July 16

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IRAN - 3 men executed in Gorgan on July 19

20 July 2025

Alireza Eshtarak, Mohammad Eshtarak + Unk

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Urgent actions

URGENT APPEAL BY HANDS OFF CAIN TO SAVE THE LIVES OF POLITICAL PRISONERS ON DEATH ROW

19 April 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.