Archive timeline
2025
The news published by Hands Off Cain in 2025, month by month, with the countries most present that year.
Latest news of 2025
NOVEMBER 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abdollah Tajik + 1 executed in Taybad on November 9
NOVEMBER 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Allahkaram Nazari executed in Dezful on November 9
- NOVEMBER 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Dariush Amini and Saman Moradi executed in Ilam on November 9
NOVEMBER 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Seyed Mohammad executed in Saveh on November 9
NOVEMBER 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Kamran Afshari executed in Arak on November 9
NOVEMBER 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Rashid Faramarzi executed in Neishabur on November 9
- NOVEMBER 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Peyman Ghasemi executed in Yasuj on November 8
1506 executions in Iran since the beginning of 2025
- NOVEMBER 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Abolfazl Sohrabi executed in Hamedan on November 8
NOVEMBER 8, 2025BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: DEATH PENALTY FOR ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCE PERPETRATORS
Bangladesh's interim government on November 6, 2025 approved a draft ordinance prescribing the death penalty for perpetrators of “enforced disappearance”
- NOVEMBER 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Samir Bahari and Yaroli Hajizadeh executed in Kermanshah on November 8
- NOVEMBER 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Yazdan Chegini executed in Khorramabad on November 8
NOVEMBER 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Zahra Mirghafari and Omid Feyzi executed in Tabriz on November 8
- NOVEMBER 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Yazdan Chegini and Amir Khaledi executed in Khorramabad on November 8
- NOVEMBER 7, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Prisoners off death row protest transfer to supermax lockup
NOVEMBER 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - IHR report: 217 persons executed in Iran in October
282 according to Hands off Cain
NOVEMBER 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Shams al-Din Abbasi Kay executed in Urmia on November 7
NOVEMBER 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hawre Jahanara executed in Urmia on November 7
NOVEMBER 6, 2025AfghanistanDEATH PENALTYAFGHANISTAN: TALIBAN FLOGS OVER 240 PEOPLE IN THREE MONTHS, UN REPORTS
The Taliban publicly flogged at least 242 people across Afghanistan between July and September this year, including 48 women, one boy, and two girls, according to a new report by the UN mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA).
NOVEMBER 6, 2025SyriaDEATH PENALTYSYRIA: MAN TO BE HANGED FOR MURDER OF EIGHT-YEAR-OLD GIRL, IN FIRST DEATH SENTENCE SINCE ASSAD OUSTER
A court in northeast Syria has sentenced a man to death by hanging after finding him guilty of raping and murdering an eight-year-old girl, The New Arab reported on November 11, 2025.
NOVEMBER 6, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - States’ death penalty policies are heading in sharply different directions
NOVEMBER 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Reza Abdali sentenced to death
Political prisoner
- NOVEMBER 5, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - NCRI monthly report: Iran’s Regime Executed 285 in October 2025
1,471 executions in 10 months of 2025
- NOVEMBER 5, 2025ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: FIVE PEOPLE INVOLVED IN NORTHERN MYANMAR CRIMINAL GANG SENTENCED TO DEATH
Five members of a 21-person family-run syndicate based in northern Myanmar were sentenced to death by a Chinese court on November 4, 2025 for multiple charges
NOVEMBER 5, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Cécile Kohler and Jacques Paris released
Another episode in Iran's notorious ‘hostage strategy’
NOVEMBER 5, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Vahid Arman executed in Yazd on November 5, 2025
NOVEMBER 5, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Habib Zare’ and Faez Abousheh executed in Shiraz on November 5
NOVEMBER 5, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Gallup poll: 52% of Americans in favor of the death penalty. 41% amongst younger Americans
- NOVEMBER 5, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ali Karimi executed in Kermanshah on November 5
NOVEMBER 5, 2025OklahomaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Oklahoma. Parole Board recommends clemency for Tremane Wood
The execution is scheduled forNovember 13
- NOVEMBER 5, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Qobad Olfati executed in Ilam on November 5