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IRAN: SIX INMATES HANGED ON MURDER CHARGES

12 December 2017 :

Six inmates were hanged on murder charges in Iran, in two different prisons.
Five inmates were hanged in Dizel Abad Prison of Kermanshah, in western Iran. Only one of the inmates has been identified as Kavous Ashouri. There is no news available on the identities of the other four.
According to the state-run Fars news agency another inmate who was identified only by his initials as A.P. was hanged in Sari Prison, north of Iran.

 
(Sources: IranHRM, 11/12/2017)

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The Court of Appeal of Tanzania on March 16, 2026 upheld the death sentence for Emmanuel Safari, a resident of the Babati District.

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The People's Court of Ho Chi Minh City on March 12, 2026 sentenced four defendants to death for their roles in a large-scale drug trafficking ring in the city.

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USA - Texas. Petition for Robert Roberson

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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.