• home
  • about us
    • Goals
    • What we have done
    • the statute
    • governing bodies
    • Appeals Awards Nobel
    • budgets
    • Contacts
    • congress
    • Etichs and Conduct for ngo
  • what we do
    • Annual report
    • thematic dossiers
    • Conferences in africa
    • Projects in progress
    • ONU Pro-moratorium resolution
    • Cities, provinces and regions
    • Our Network
    • Video
  • what you can do
    • Join us
    • donations
    • Buy publications
    • Sign the appeal
  • news
  • urgent actions
  • database
  • documents
  • projects
  • newsletter

IRAN: TWO PRISONERS HANGED IN AHWAZ

09 October 2013 :

Two prisoners were hanged in the prison of Ahwaz (southwestern Iran), reported the state run Iranian news agencies.
According to the Iranian State Broadcasting the prisoners were convicted of possession and trafficking of 8 kilos and 500 grams and keeping and possession of 740 grams of heroin.
None of the prisoners were identified by name.
 
(Sources: Iran Human Rights, 08/10/2013)

other news

IRAN - At least 188 Citizens Arrested in Connection with the War

02 April 2026  Read everything

IRAN - Death Sentence of Mansour Jamali Upheld

02 April 2026

Political prisoner belonging to the MEK

 Read everything

IRAN - Hrana Report on 33rd day of war

02 April 2026

From the Former U.S. Embassy to the Russian Orthodox Church

 Read everything

CHINA: FORMER DATANG EXECUTIVE SENTENCED TO DEATH WITH REPRIEVE

01 April 2026

A former senior executive at major Chinese state-owned power company Datang Group on April 1st, 2026 was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve over corruption-related charges, according to state media reports.

 Read everything

BANGLADESH: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING CARETAKER OVER TK5 DEMAND

01 April 2026

A Dhaka court on March 31, 2026 sentenced a man to death for killing a caretaker after asking him for Tk5 in the capital's Sher-e-Bangla Nagar area.

 Read everything

IRAN - Hrana Report on 32nd day of war

01 April 2026

Strikes Focused on Central Regions of the Country

 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
All urgent actions 
 
 
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
All documents 
 
Privacy & Cookies - Contacts - Credits

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.