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
NOVEMBER 30, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Naser Alizehi and Naser Ozbakzehi executed in Zahedan on November 30
769 executions since the beginning of the year
NOVEMBER 30, 2023PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH
An Attock court on November 29, 2023 sentenced a man to death in a murder case registered with Attock Sadsar police station in 2020.
NOVEMBER 30, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Protester Kamran Rezaei executed in Shiraz on November 30
NOVEMBER 30, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 118 Kolbars killed or wounded in November
mountain carriers
NOVEMBER 29, 2023NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH IN ONDO STATE FOR HACKING BRICKLAYER TO DEATH
A middle-aged man, Joseph Abayomi, was sentenced to death on November 27, 2023 in Ondo State for hacking his neighbor, Thomas Oluwole, to death.
NOVEMBER 29, 2023NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: NCOS BLAMES GOVERNORS FOR 5,000 INMATES AWAITING HANGMAN’S NOOSE FOR DECADES
At an Access to Justice in Nigeria parley, the Nigeria Correctional Service on November 7, 2023 raised issues over 5,000 inmates who have been sentenced to death by hanging but have waited for decades without their sentences being carried out.
NOVEMBER 29, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ayoub Karimi executed in Karaj on November 29
A Kurdish religious prisoner
NOVEMBER 29, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Moradkhan Geravand and Morad Biranvand executed in Khorramabad on November 29
NOVEMBER 29, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Massoud Basak executed in Kashan on November 29
NOVEMBER 28, 2023PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: GIRL EXECUTED BY HER OWN FAMILY IN HONOUR KILLING
An 18-year-old girl was allegedly killed by her own family after being sentenced to death by village elders for dancing with a boy in a viral social media video in Pakistan.
NOVEMBER 28, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING DAUGHTER IN SIRAJGANJ
A Sirajganj court on November 26, 2023 sentenced a young man to death for killing his daughter at Salanga upazila in the district in 2022.
NOVEMBER 28, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Two more men executed on November 28 in Ilam
Unk so far
NOVEMBER 28, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Eghbal Fathollahi and Mohsen Amraie executed in Karaj on November 28
NOVEMBER 28, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hani Shahbazi (Al-Boushehbazi) executed in Ahvaz on November 28.
Shahbazi was arrested during the November 2019 protests
NOVEMBER 28, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hamid Bakhshayesh executed in Karaj on 28 November
NOVEMBER 28, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Agha Mohammadi and Naser Maghsoudi executed in Ilam on 28 November
NOVEMBER 28, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Shahram Mohammadbeigi executed in Ilam on November 28
NOVEMBER 28, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 more4 executions in Karaj on November 28
For a total of 7
NOVEMBER 27, 2023NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: COURT SENTENCES MAN TO DEATH FOR KILLING SEVEN DSS OFFICERS IN 2015
An Ikeja high court on November 21, 2023 sentenced two men over the death of seven officers of the Department of State Services (DSS).
NOVEMBER 27, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: YOUTH SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING WIFE, CHILD IN JHENIDAHA
Jhenidah court on November 27, 2023 sentenced a young man to death for killing his wife and child in 2016 at Shailkupa upazila in the district.
- NOVEMBER 26, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Nahavand on November 26
Brothers Farshid and Farshad Pirhayati, Asghar Suri
NOVEMBER 26, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Reza Rastkhiz executed in Shiraz on November 26
NOVEMBER 26, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Adel Damani executed in Chabahar on November 26
16 years old at the time of the alleged offence
NOVEMBER 26, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Names of 50 female political prisoners in Iran’s Evin prison
- NOVEMBER 25, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - More information about the execution of Hamidreza Azari
He was 17 at the time of the crime
NOVEMBER 25, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ahmad Heydari executed in Khorramabad on November 25
NOVEMBER 25, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Two men Executed in Rasht on November 25
Political prisoner Geda Ali Saber Motlagh and Mohsen Sedaghat
NOVEMBER 25, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unidentified woman executed in Rasht on November 25
- NOVEMBER 24, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mother of executed protester arrested for wailing at his funeral
Afsaneh Zohrevand, mother of Milad Zohrevand
NOVEMBER 24, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unidentified young man executed in Sabzevar on 24 November
Possibly a minor at the time of the crime