Archive timeline
2023
The news published by Hands Off Cain in 2023, month by month, with the countries most present that year.
Latest news of 2023
MAY 26, 2023BelgiumDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Belgian Government Releases Iranian Diplomat-Terrorist Assadollah Assadi
Controversial Prisoner Swap
MAY 26, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - The official position: 'Assadi's release, a personal victory for Raisi's diplomatic initiatives'
MAY 25, 2023Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: THREE SAUDIS EXECUTED ON TERROR CHARGES
Three Saudis on May 22, 2023 were executed in the Eastern Province for joining a military camp outside the Kingdom to serve a “terrorist organization.”
MAY 25, 2023PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: FOUR GET DEATH PENALTY ON TWO COUNTS FOR MURDER DURING ARMED ROBBERY
A Karachi West district model trial court handed down death penalty on two counts to each of the four suspects accused of killing a man and injuring two others during an armed robbery, The Tribune Express reported on May 16, 2023.
MAY 25, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehdi Salari and Mohammad Daraei executed in Jiroft on May 25
MAY 25, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Amir Mahdi executed in public on May 25
MAY 25, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Piri executed in Urmia on May 25
314 executions since the beginning of the year
MAY 25, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Kerman on May 25
Ali Shahriari, Ghaderbakhsh Dehani, Abdolrasould Jamishidi, Ali Salari
MAY 25, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 6 men executed in Kerman on May 25
Nader Kalbali, Abdorasoul Jamshidi + 4 Unk
MAY 25, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Saeed Mohammadi Far executed in Sanandaj on May 25
MAY 25, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 2 men, partially identified, executed in Rasht on May 25
Mohammad and Hamidreza
- MAY 24, 2023Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
DRC: KENYAN FUGITIVE HANDED DEATH SENTENCE
A Court in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has sentenced Kenyan terror suspect Salim Mohammed, alias Chotora, to death.
- MAY 24, 2023FloridaDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Florida. Jury voted 8-4 for death sentence for Michael James Jackson
MAY 24, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - The death sentence of protester Mohammad Ghobadloo has been upheld
MAY 24, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Nader Alizahi executed in Kerman on May 24
MAY 24, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Parviz Javadi executed in Zanjan on May 24
MAY 24, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Mohammad Zera’at and Esmaiel Nasiri executed in Shiraz on May 24
Hrana learned on June 2
MAY 23, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Court Overturns Death Sentence of Protestor Javad Rouhi
MAY 23, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Saeed Mohammadi executed in Kermanshah on May 23
MAY 23, 2023VietnamDEATH PENALTYVIETNAM: KOREAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDERING COMPATRIOT AND CUTTING UP BODY
HCMC People's Court sentenced a South Korean businessman to death on May 19, 2023 for murdering a countryman over an unpaid debt before cutting his body into pieces.
MAY 23, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unidentified man executed in Bandar Abbas on May 23
MAY 23, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - … Bazi executed in Gorgan on May 23
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MAY 23, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Majid Sharifi and Ali Tabib executed in Isfahan on May 23
MAY 23, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Maysam Sadri executed in Zanjan on May 23
MAY 23, 2023CaliforniaDEATH PENALTYUSA - California. 9th Circuit Overturns Death Penalty for Tauno Waidla
- MAY 22, 2023ZimbabweDEATH PENALTY
ZIMBABWE RELEASES PRISONERS IN AMNESTY, REDUCING OVERCROWDING
Zimbabwe has begun releasing more than 4,000 prisoners under a presidential amnesty that authorities say will help ease congestion in some overcrowded jails.
- MAY 22, 2023Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
MYANMAR: JUNTA COURT HANDS DEATH SENTENCE TO 5 RESISTANCE MEMBERS
Five resistance members accused of shooting dead four police officers on a Yangon train were sentenced to death by a junta court at Insein Prison on May 15, 2023, according to lawyers familiar with the case.
MAY 22, 2023United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Death Row USA Summer 2022 Report: 2,394 on death row
MAY 21, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Grave of Zhina Mahsa Amini vandalised in Saqqez
MAY 21, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - A prisoner named Milad Bahmanzadeh died of heart attack before his execution