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2024
The news published by Hands Off Cain in 2024, month by month, with the countries most present that year.
Latest news of 2024
JANUARY 21, 2024North KoreaDEATH PENALTYNORTH KOREA: RARE FOOTAGE SHOWS TEENS SENTENCED TO HARD LABOUR OVER K-DRAMA
Rare footage obtained by BBC Korean shows North Korea publicly sentencing two teenage boys to 12 years of hard labour for watching K-dramas.
JANUARY 21, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Salman Salimi and Ahmad Haeri executed in Hamedan on January 21
JANUARY 21, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Moslem Aliyari executed in Shirvan on January 21
- JANUARY 20, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hasan Gergij executed in Zahedan on January 20
JANUARY 20, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Isfahan on January 20
Nouri Zamani, Fathollah Jourkesh and Hosseinali Koutahi
JANUARY 19, 2024AlabamaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Alabama. Jewish clergy demand halt to gas chamber execution
JANUARY 18, 2024JapanDEATH PENALTYJAPAN: 21-YEAR-OLD MAN GIVEN DEATH PENALTY FOR 2021 MURDER, ARSON
A Japanese court sentenced a 21-year-old man to death on January 18, 2024 for the 2021 murder of two and arson, in the first case of capital punishment being given to an offender who was a minor at the time of the crime but whose name has been revealed un
JANUARY 18, 2024IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: KARNATAKA HC COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCE TO LIFE IN DOUBLE MURDER CASE
The Dharwad bench of the High Court in Karnataka state has refused to confirm the death sentence imposed upon three people in a double murder case, observing that the case does not answer the test of ‘rarest of rare case’, TNN reported on January 15, 2024
JANUARY 18, 2024AlabamaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Alabama. Alarm as Kenneth Smith to be executed via gas method rejected by veterinarians
JANUARY 18, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Eslahollah Bakhsh and Hamid Ebadinejad executed in Rasht on January 18
JANUARY 17, 2024SingaporeDEATH PENALTYSINGAPORE: DECADE-HIGH SURGE IN EXECUTIONS
Singapore’s government carried out its highest number of executions in more than a decade and sought to intimidate anti-death penalty activists, Human Rights Watch said on January 11, 2024 in its World Report 2024.
JANUARY 17, 2024PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING FATHER
A man was sentenced to death in Pakistan on December 29, 2023 after he was found guilty of killing his father with repeated strokes of a scissors on October 26, 2020 in the Langha village, located along the border of Khairpur district.
JANUARY 17, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jalil Soleimani executed in Hamedan on January 17
JANUARY 17, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Eslam Aman Aldini executed in Qom on January 17
- JANUARY 17, 2024AlabamaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Alabama. Kenneth Smith could be the 1st person executed with nitrogen gas
He spoke with National Public Radio
JANUARY 17, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Mashahdi executed in Mashhad on January 17
JANUARY 17, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Karaj on January 17
Bahman Fathollahzadeh, Imani Shabani, Keramat Jan Nazarkhani, + 1 unk.
- JANUARY 16, 2024SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALIA: AL-SHABAAB EXECUTES SEVEN IN JILIB OVER ESPIONAGE ALLEGATIONS
The militant group Al-Shabaab on January 15, 2024 carried out a public execution of seven individuals in Jilib, Middle Juba region.
- JANUARY 16, 2024United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTY
UAE: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR PREMEDITATED MURDER OF GIRLFRIEND
The Dubai Criminal Court has sentenced an Arab man to death for the premeditated murder of his European girlfriend, Gulf News reported on Janury 16, 2024.
JANUARY 16, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Kamran Khoroush executed in Shiraz on January 16
JANUARY 16, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Habib Darivishi executed in Kermanshah on January 16
JANUARY 16, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Akram Karimpour executed in Hamedan on January 16
- JANUARY 16, 2024AlabamaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Alabama. UN urge Alabama to halt first execution by nitrogen asphyxiation
JANUARY 16, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohsen Mehri executed in Ilam on January 16
- JANUARY 15, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Narges Mohammadi has been sentenced to a further 15 months
Nobel Peace Prize for 2023
- JANUARY 15, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Death sentences of ten political prisoners upheld
Mojahed Kourkouri, Reza Rasaei, Farhad Salimi, Anwar Khezri, Khosrow Besharat, Kamran Sheikheh, Mohsen Mazloum, Mohammad Faramarzi, Vafa Azarbar, and Pejman Fatehi
JANUARY 15, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - New Charges Against Two Journalists After Their Release
Elaheh Mohammadi and Niloofar Hamedi published photographs on social media without wearing head scarves
JANUARY 15, 2024PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS GENERAL MUSHARRAF’S DEATH SENTENCE, A YEAR AFTER HIS DEATH
The Pakistan Supreme Court on January 10, 2024 upheld late former president General (retd) Pervez Musharraf's death penalty awarded to him in 2019 in connection with a high treason case, Geo TV reported.
JANUARY 15, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Yaghoub Alimoradi executed in Nahavand on January 15
- JANUARY 14, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - At least six men executed in Karaj on January 14
Ahmad Latifi, Ali Akbar Moradian, Akbar Khoramtash, Hadi Nazari, Seyed Ali Miri and Amirhossein Maleki