Death by punishment

ITALY - On World Human Rights Day, HoC is in Perugia

Meeting in the Great Hall of the University for Foreigners

ITALY - Hands off Cain in Venice 2025

“The Human Rights Barrier”

ITALY - Humand rights at the Venice Film Festival

USA - 194.000 persons serving life sentences

A study by The Sentencing Project

ITALY - Interview with professor Patrizia Patrizi

On the state of restorative justice two years after the Cartabia Reform

INDIA: DEATH ROW TAKES HUGE MENTAL TOLL ON PRISONERS, REVEALS REPORT

The long incarceration and time spent agonising over the death penalty takes a heavy toll on prisoners who suffer from psychiatric illnesses and intellectual disability, according to a new study conducted in India.

ELISABETTA ZAMPARUTTI HAS BEEN ELECTED TO THE CPT FOR A SECOND TERM

The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe elected me to the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) as a member on behalf of Italy.

COVID EMERGENCY: RITA BERNARDINI IS ON HUNGER STRIKE FOR AMNESTY, INDULT, SPECIAL EARLY RELEASE

From midnight on November 10, 2020, the President of Hands Off Cain Rita Bernardini has embarked on a hunger strike aimed at the Government and Parliament to address what is happening in prisons.

DEATH PENALTY: HANDS OFF CAIN, TRUMP RETURNS AMERICA TO THE PAST

The association Hands Off Cain - Spes contra spem thus commented on the news of the resumption of federal executions in America.

IRAN: HANDS OFF CAIN, UNACCEPTABLE ANTI-ZIONIST LAW AND INTRODUCTION OF THE DEATH PENALTY TO HIT ISRAEL

The Hands off Cain - Spes contra spem association considers the law on "hostile acts of the Zionist regime against peace and security" announced by President Hassan Rouhani unacceptable.

ITALY: FROM ‘CRADLE’ TO ‘TOMB’ OF LAW?

Saturday, May 23 2020, 9:30 am - 8:00 pm Live on Radio Radicale and on Youtube and Facebook of Hands off Cain

HANDS OFF CAIN: WITH THE STORY OF CUTOLO, ITALY DEGRADES FROM CRADLE TO GRAVE OF LAW

Sergio D’Elia, Secretary of Hands off Cain-Spes contra Spem, has reassessed the following statement on the story of Raffaele Cutolo, who has been denied Medical furlough because of coronavirus.

JUSTICE: HANDS OFF CAIN, RIGHT TO HEALTH IS VALID FOR ALL EVEN 41 BIS

The association Hands off Cain-Spes contra spem defends the decisions of the Surveillance Court of Milan on the granting of the postponement of the sentence for very serious health reasons in cases of prisoners under the 41 bis regime.

PRISON: CONVOCATION OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF HANDS OFF CAIN-SPES CONTRA SPEM

The Hand off Cain-Spes contra spem association convened its Board of Directors on Saturday, April 18 from 2.30 pm to 8.00 pm.

PRISON: CORONAVIRUS, PROCEDIMENTAL CLASS ACTION FOR RESPECTING HYGIENIC AND SANITARY MEASURES IN BARI PRISON

The Hands off Cain-Spes contra spem association sponsors the procedural class action for compliance with sanitary measures in the Bari prison promoted by lawyers Luigi Paccione and Alessio Carlucci and hopes that similar actions will be taken for prisons

PRISONER DEAD FROM CORONAVIRUS, HANDS OFF CAIN ASKS THAT HEAD OF GOVERNMENT AND HEAD OF STATE INTERVENE

The association "Hands off Cain-Spes contra spem", faced with the news of the first death of a prisoner linked to the coronavirus, which follows the equally tragic news of two prison officers who died in recent days, "asks the Prime Minister and the Presi

PRISONER DIES OF CORONAVIRUS, HANDS OFF CAIN ASKS THAT HEAD OF GOVERNMENT AND HEAD OF STATE INTERVENE

The association "Hands off Cain-Spes contra spem", faced with the news of the first death of a prisoner linked to the coronavirus, which follows the equally tragic news of two prison officers who died in recent days, "asks the Prime Minister and the Presi

CORONAVIRUS. PRISON, APPEAL OF HANDS OFF CAIN FOR NONVIOLENCE

Faced with the news of riots underway in prisons, the association Hands Off Cain - Spes contra Spem appeals to the entire prison community, made up of prisoners, managers and prison operators, so that the behaviors are in the name of nonviolence and dialo

IRAN. HANDS OFF CAIN, THE ‘FACES OF REPRESSION’ CAMPAIGN IN IRAN ARRIVES AT THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

The Hands off Cain-Spes contra Spem association, which promoted a campaign to update the European list of members of the Iranian regime subject to restrictive measures for violation of human rights called "The faces of repression", welcomes the question w

IRAN. HOC PRESENTS THE DOSSIER 'FACES OF REPRESSION' FOR AN UPDATE OF THE EU LIST OF PERSONS SUBJECTED TO RESTRICTIVE MEASURES FOR SERIOUS VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS

The dossier "The faces of repression" by Hands Off Cain - Spes contra spem presented today (13 February 2020) to the Senate outlines the profiles of 23 exponents of the Iranian regime that the association asks to be included in the EU list of persons subj

TEXAS (USA): CHANGES IN A RESTRICTIVE SENSE ON THE DEATH ROW

A friend of Hands Off Cain, Daniela Fontana, informs us of changes in a restrictive sense on the death row of Texas.

IRAN. HANDS OFF CAIN PRESENTS THE DOSSIER ‘THE FACES OF REPRESSION’ FOR AN UPDATE OF THE EU LIST OF SUBJECT TO RESTRICTIVE MEASURES FOR SERIOUS VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS

PRESS CONFERENCE

USA - Texas. Italy. Daniela Fontana informs us of changes in a restrictive sense on the death row of Texas.

USA - Texas. Italy. Daniela Fontana informs us of changes in a restrictive sense on the death row of Texas.

ENDED IN OPERA PRISON IN MILAN THE VIII CONGRESS OF ‘HANDS OFF CAIN-SPES CONTRA SPEM’

As you know, the VIII Congress of "Hands off Cain-Spes contra spem" (in its new name) ended in the Opera prison in Milan on 21 December 2019 with the election of a new Council Board

PRISON. HANDS OFF CAIN IN CONGRESS IN OPERA IN MILAN

The VIII Congress of Hands Off Cain will be held in the Opera prison in Milan on 20 and 21 December.

VIII HANDS OFF CAIN CONGRESS - PROGRAM PROPOSAL AND ORDER OF WORKS

Prison of Opera (MI), 20-21 December 2019

LIFE IMPRISONMENT: HANDS OFF CAIN, THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT OPENS A BREACH IN THE WALL OF THE LIFE SENTENCE WITHOUT PAROLE

For the association Hands Off Cain, for years engaged with the Radical Party, for the abolishment of the life sentence without parole, the decision of the Constitutional Court “opens a breach in the boundary wall of life sentencing without parole.”

ELISABETTA ZAMPARUTTI: ‘GOVERNMENT’S DECISION TO NOT CONFIRM ME AT CPT CONFIRMS MY VALUE AND THAT OF THE BATTLES OF HOC’

I consider a medal to my value and to the value of the things that I have done and that I will continue to do for the abolition of life imprisonment without parole and solitary confinement, the Italian Government's decision not to confirm me in the second

LIFE IN PRISON: HANDS OFF CAIN, DECISION CEDU MILESTONE ON THE WAY TO ABOLISH THE LIFE IMPRISONMENT WITHOUT PAROLE

For the association Hands Off Cain, after years of working with the Radical Party for the abolition of “ergastolo ostativo” (life imprisonment without parole), the decision of the European Court of Human Rights, which finalized the ruling in the case of M

COURT OF STRASBOURG. HANDS OFF CAIN, HISTORICAL JUDGMENT OF THE ECHR ON THE VIOLA CASE vs ITALY

For the "Hands off Cain" association, which for years has been involved, with the Radical Party, in the abolition of the life sentence, the judgment of the European Court for Human Rights in the case of Marcello Viola vs Italy is a historical pronouncemen