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IRAN. TWO HANGED FOR DRUG SMUGGLING

13 March 2007 :

two men convicted of armed drug smuggling were publicly hanged in the town of Minab in southern Iran, the ISNA news agency reported. The executed men, identified only as Ali Sh. and Mohammad J., were convicted of transporting several hundred kilos of drugs including opium, heroin and hashish.
 
(Sources: AFP, 11/03/2007)

other news

SUDAN: TWO WOMEN FROM EL GEDAREF AND BLUE NILE FACE DEATH BY STONING IN PRISON

17 February 2026

Activists and human rights defenders say that two women, from El Gedaref and Blue Nile respectively, are being detained in Omdurman prison in Sudan, sentenced to death by stoning, Radio Dabanga reported on February 4, 2026.

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TAIWAN: FEMALE DRIVER SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING POLICE STATION CHIEF

17 February 2026

A female motorist who fatally dragged the head of a police station to his death while trying to evade a roadside check in 2024 was sentenced to death by the New Taipei District Court on February 11, 2026.

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IRAN - 520 men and 8 women executed in Iran since the beginning of 2026

17 February 2026  Read everything

IRAN - Information about people arrested during the January 2026 riots

17 February 2026  Read everything

IRAN - Victim accounts: the killing of Jahanbakhsh Hesar Firouzeh, 70

17 February 2026  Read everything

IRAN - 16 men and a woman executed on February 14 and 15

17 February 2026

More than 500 executions in Iran since the beginning of 2026

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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
  •   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.