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 9, 2023IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: 65-YR-OLD GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR RAPE, MURDER OF MINOR
The Special POCSO Court on November 7, 2023 awarded death sentence to a 65-year-old man accused of rape and murder in Uttar Pradesh.
NOVEMBER 9, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abdolreza Gholami executed in Kerman on November 9
NOVEMBER 9, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hojat Gharebiglu executed in Zanjan on November 9
- NOVEMBER 8, 2023New YorkDEATH PENALTY
USA - ‘Exonerated 5’ member Yusef Salaam wins council seat in NYC
- NOVEMBER 8, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 9 prisoners executed in Karaj on November 8
Rasul Taimuri, Hossein Hawasi, Bahman Fethullahzadeh + 6 Unk
NOVEMBER 8, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Farhad Aghaei executed in Kermanshah on November 8
NOVEMBER 8, 2023SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE FOR DRIVER OVER POLICEMAN'S DEATH
A military court in Mogadishu has upheld the death sentence slapped on a tuk-tuk driver who had been convicted of murdering a police officer in Mogadishu.
NOVEMBER 8, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jailed Nobel Peace Prize Winner Mohammadi Taken to Hospital – Without Hijab
NOVEMBER 8, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 2 unidentified men executed in Bandar Abbas on November 8
NOVEMBER 8, 2023OklahomaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Oklahoma. Phillip Hancock receives clemency recommendation
NOVEMBER 8, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Khodadad Rahimi and Saber Alikhani executed in Kashan on November 8
NOVEMBER 8, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Amin Khorshidi executed in Urmia on November 8
NOVEMBER 8, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Shahram Ali Abbasi executed in Gorgan on November 8
NOVEMBER 8, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unnamed man executed in Kerman on November 8
NOVEMBER 7, 2023PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
Muzaffargarh Additional District and Sessions Judge Tariq Maqsood sentenced a man to death for murder and imposed a fine of Rs500,000, Dawn reported on November 4, 2023.
NOVEMBER 7, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Alireza Partowi executed in Kermanshah on November 7
- NOVEMBER 6, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Akbar Farokhi executed in Urmia on November 8
- NOVEMBER 6, 2023United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - POLL: Americans Believe the Death Penalty Is Applied Unfairly
- NOVEMBER 6, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hamed Barahouyi executed in Isfahan on November 6
NOVEMBER 6, 2023BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 2 MEN GET DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING THEIR WIVES
Two men were handed the death penalty on October 30, 2023 in Natore and Sirajganj on charges of killing their wives.
NOVEMBER 6, 2023MalaysiaDEATH PENALTYMALAYSIA: APPEALS COURT COMMUTES WELDER’S DEATH SENTENCE TO 35 YEARS’ JAIL FOR KILLING HOUSEWIFE
A welder escaped the gallows in Malaysia on November 6, 2023 after the Court of Appeal commuted the death sentence imposed on him by the High Court to 35 years in jail for killing a housewife.
- NOVEMBER 6, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - On November 6, Narges Mohammadi, detained at Evin Prison, commenced a hunger strike
Nobel Peace Prize laureate and prominent political prisoner
NOVEMBER 6, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - More than 200 Experts Urge United Nations to Protest Iran’s Chairing of UNHRC Social Forum
- NOVEMBER 5, 2023NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
NIGERIA: FATHER OF 7 SENTENCED TO DEATH BY HANGING FOR KIDNAPPING IN AKWA IBOM
One Pius Udo Ben, a father of seven from Ikot Use Ekong in Eket Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State, has been sentenced to death for kidnapping a four year old boy who has not been found till date, Daily Post reported on November 1st 2023.
NOVEMBER 5, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ghasem Abasteh, a Kurdish-Sunni political prisoner, executed in Ghezel Hesar on November 5
NOVEMBER 4, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Saied Alizehi and Esmaiel Alizehi executed in Zahedan on November 4
Two Baloch brothers
NOVEMBER 3, 2023AlabamaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Alabama. Jury sentences LaJeromeny Brown to death
NOVEMBER 3, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jamshid Sharmahd in Critical Health Condition
A German-Iranian man living in the USA
- NOVEMBER 2, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Dissident Iranian Composer Receives UN Award for “Courageous” Work
Mehdi Rajabian
NOVEMBER 2, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Isfahan on November 2
Ebrahim Naroi (Narui, Narooie), Nasir Karimi, and Ali Hadi + Unk