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PAKISTAN: ANOTHER DEATH ROW PRISONER HANGED IN RAWALPINDI

09 April 2015 :

a murderer was executed at the Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi, bringing the number of executions to 69 since their resumption in December 2014. Raja Mushtaq Ahmed had been found guilty in a double-murder case and was sentenced to death by the session court.
 
(Sources: APP, 09/04/2015)

other news

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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IRAN - Ghasem Azizi executed in Birjand on July 14

17 July 2025  Read everything

IRAN - Mohammad Javad Kazemi executed in Arak on July 14

17 July 2025  Read everything

IRAN - 3 political prisoners sentenced to death

17 July 2025

Massoud Jamei, Alireza Mardasi and Farshad Etemadifar

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IRAN - Kianush Khosravi Siahbidi executed in Kermanshah on July 15

17 July 2025

704 executions in Iran since the beginning of 2025 (at least)

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YEMEN POSTPONES EXECUTION OF INDIAN NURSE ON DEATH ROW

16 July 2025

Authorities in Yemen have postponed the execution of an Indian nurse who is on death row after being found guilty of murder, Indian foreign ministry sources say.

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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.