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SAUDI ARABIA: MAN BEHEADED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING

10 May 2013 :

Saudi authorities beheaded a Pakistani man found guilty of smuggling drugs into the kingdom, the interior ministry said.
The man was caught attempting to smuggle heroin hidden inside his stomach, the ministry said.
He was executed in Riyadh.
His beheading brings to 38 the number of people executed in Saudi Arabia since the beginning of the year, according to an AFP tally.
 
(Sources: AFP, 08/05/2013)

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BANGLADESH: 4 SENTENCED TO DEATH, 4 TO LIFE TERM IN JHENAIDAH

07 July 2025

A Jhenaidah court on July 7, 2025 sentenced four people to death and four others to life imprisonment for killing Sub-Inspector (SI) Mirajul Islam in 2011.

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INDIA: MAN GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING SIX MEMBERS OF A FAMILY

07 July 2025

The IV additional district and sessions court in Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh) on June 27, 2025 sentenced 50-year-old Battina Appalaraju to death for killing six members of a family, including two children, in a revenge killing in April 2021.

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IRAN - French couple face death penalty on spying charges

05 July 2025

Cécile Kohler and Jacques Paris

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IRAN - Hossein Ali Abedi executed in Ahar on July 1

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IRAN - Jabar Pourmohammadi Maghani executed in Zanjan on July 2

05 July 2025  Read everything

IRAN - Rezgar Beigzadeh Babamiri sentenced to death

05 July 2025  Read everything
 

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.