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IRAN: TWO HANGED PUBLICLY FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING

Public execution in Iran

19 November 2012 :

According to the official website of the Iranian judiciary in Fars Province two prisoners identified as "A. M." convicted of carrying 85 kilograms of opium and 10 kilograms of concentrated heroin, and "S. S." convicted of carrying 2800 grams of concentrated heroin, were hanged publicly the Iranian town of Darab (southern Iran).
According to the official and unofficial reports 81 prisoners have been executed in the last 10 days in Iran.
 
(Sources: Iran Human Rights, 17/11/2012)

other news

NIGERIA: KATSINA COURT SENTENCES FEMALE ARMS COURIER TO DEATH

16 June 2026

A Federal High Court in Katsina State has sentenced a female arms courier to death by hanging

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UGANDA: PRISONS CONFIRMS 93 INMATES ON DEATH ROW, SAYS NO EXECUTIONS SINCE 1999

15 June 2026

The Uganda Prisons Service has confirmed that the country currently has 93 inmates on death row, while reiterating that no executions have been carried out since 1999, Nile Post reported on June 11, 2026.

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IRAN - 8 men Executed in Ghezel Hesar on June 13

15 June 2026

Seyed Akbar Banihashem, Amirabbas Dekavand +6

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IRAN - Bilal Saadat Jahani executed in Birjand on June 15

15 June 2026  Read everything

IRAN - Mohammad Amin Narouei executed in Birjand on June 14

15 June 2026  Read everything

IRAN - Mohammadreza Gashoul executed in Isfahan on June 15

15 June 2026  Read everything
 

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.