Executions
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An execution is the act by which a state puts a condemned person to death. Hands Off Cain records the cases documented by public sources: press agencies, local newspapers, human rights organisations, official statements. The figure that results is a confirmed minimum, not an estimate of the real total: several states publish no data on executions, and in some countries they are not announced even to the families.
This page collects the news on the executions recorded by the association. The totals by country and by year are in the database.
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- MAY 10, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN Four unidentified men executed in Gohardasht on May 10
MAY 10, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Karaj on May 10
Hossein Panjak, Abdolhossein Emami Moghaddam and Babak Aghayi
MAY 10, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Between 29 April and 8 May, 118 people were executed in Iran
239 persone dall'inizio dell'anno
MAY 10, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 2 unidentified men executed in Arak Prison on May 10
MAY 10, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Saber Payamian executed in Kermanshah on May 10
MAY 10, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Saber Payamian executed in Kermanshah on May 10
At least 52 Kurdish executed in Iran's prisons since the beginning of this year
- MAY 9, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Najmedin Eshaghzehi executed in Semnan on May 9
- MAY 8, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unidentified man executed in Shiraz on May 8
- MAY 8, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Bahman Zayerfar executed in Ahar on May 8
MAY 8, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed on May 8: Mohammad Ahmadi, Yaser Rakhshani and Yunus Rigi Rakhshani
25 Baloch prisoners executed in the last 11 days
MAY 8, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unidentified man executed in Dezful on May 8
MAY 8, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Shahrouzi executed in Shiraz on May 8
MAY 8, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Yousef Mehrad and Sadrollah Fazeli Zare executed for blasphemy
MAY 6, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iran executed Swedish-Iranian dissident Habib Chaab
For “terrorism”
MAY 6, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Asghar Samiei and Tahmaseb Kavousi executed in Zanjan on May 6
229 executions since the beginning of the year
MAY 6, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Salahedin Majidi (Dodkanlu) and Abdollah Khan Mohammadi executed in Salmas on May 6
MAY 5, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Faramarz Shakhsi executed in Urmia on May 5
MAY 5, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Names of 4 men executed in Khorramabad on May 5
Shakhsi, Mahmoudyar, Hanifi and Teymuri
MAY 5, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehdi Teimouri executed in Urmia on May 5
- MAY 4, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 5 men executed in Yazd on May 4
Saboor Shah-Bakhsh, Amir Rameshk, Abdolbasir Bazhm + 2 non identified
- MAY 4, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Saeed Saleh and Hossein Amirabadi executed in Gohardasht on May 3
- MAY 4, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Edris Gorgij executed in Torbat-e-Jam on May 4
MAY 4, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Nour-Ahmad Zavarzahi executed in Mashhad on May 4
MAY 4, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hamed Mousavi executed in Ardabil on May 4
MAY 4, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 2 men executed in Qezelhesar prison, in Karaj, on May 4
Mohammad Ali Bani Ebrahimi and Mehdi Farrokhi
MAY 4, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hamid Emamizadeh executed in Khorramabad on May 4
MAY 4, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jalaladdin Rahimian-Azar executed in Rasht on May 4
MAY 4, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 unidentified men executed in Rasht on May 4
MAY 3, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hanif Khosravi executed in Neishabur on May 3
MAY 3, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Names ot 2 of the 3 unidentified men executed in Gohardasht on May 3
Sirous ... and Behzad ...