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IRAN: TWO PRISONERS HANGED IN RASHT

16 June 2015 :

according to official reports from the Department of Justice in Gilan, two prisoners were hanged at Lakan Prison in Rasht for drug-related crimes. They were identified as E. M., 54, charged with possession of 994 kilograms of heroin and Q. P., 44., charged with selling, buying, and possessing 24 kilograms of opium.
 
(Sources: Iran Human Rights, 15/06/2015)

other news

TANZANIA - Update on the Tundu Lissu case

18 July 2025

Opposition leader arrested on vague charges

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IRAN - The 77th Week of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” Campaign

18 July 2025  Read everything

IRAN - Ali Mirza executed in Malayer on July 12

18 July 2025  Read everything

IRAN - Peyman Afshar executed in Rasht on July 16

18 July 2025  Read everything

IRAN - Mosaib Segvand executed in Khorramabad on July 13

18 July 2025  Read everything

INDIA: SC ACQUITS MAN ON DEATH ROW, ISSUES NATIONWIDE GUIDELINES ON DNA EVIDENCE HANDLING

17 July 2025

The Supreme Court of India on July 15, 2025 acquitted a man on death row in a murder case, outlining the gaps in forensic evidence and issued countrywide directions on handling of DNA samples.

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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.