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
- OCTOBER 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Faraji executed in Sanandaj on October 1
OCTOBER 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Five Christian Converts Sentenced to 41 Years in Prison
Hesamoddin (Yahya) Mohammad Joneydi, Morteza (Kalvin) Faghanpour Sasi, Abolfazl (Benjamin) Ahmadzadeh Khajani + 2
OCTOBER 1, 2025ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: FORMER SENIOR POLITICAL ADVISER IN GUIZHOU SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR BRIBERY
A former senior political adviser in Guizhou province, Chen Yan, was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve on September 29, 2025 for taking bribes, Xinhua News Agency reported.
OCTOBER 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Ghezel Hesar on October 1
Ali Geravand, Javad Sargazi, Sajad Mahmoudi, Hamid-Reza Maleki
OCTOBER 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Saeed Amiri and Mehrdad Shahidi executed in Kermanshah on October 1
OCTOBER 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 187 executions in September (197 as for Hands off Cain)
Highest monthly toll in 20 years
OCTOBER 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Seydi Tabaei executed in Karaj on October 1
OCTOBER 1, 2025North CarolinaDEATH PENALTYUSA - North Carolina. Legislature Passes Sweeping Criminal Law Legislation in Effort to Restart Executions
- OCTOBER 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Sadegh Bazvand executed in Dezful on October 1
OCTOBER 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Kermanshah on October 1
OCTOBER 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mostafa Mahmoud Salehi and Nader Mianji executed in Isfahan on October 1
OCTOBER 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Khosro Moradlou executed in Zanjan on October 1
- OCTOBER 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Khodayar Faraji executed in Birjand on October 1
OCTOBER 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Ghezel-Hesar on October 1
Saeed Seyedi Tabayi, Mehdi Moradi and Sajad Mahmoudi
- OCTOBER 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Hamedan on October 1
Kamran Navabi, Soleiman Mohammadvand, and Khorram ...
- SEPTEMBER 30, 2025ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA SENTENCES 11 MEMBERS OF MAFIA FAMILY TO DEATH
A Chinese court on September 29, 2025 sentenced to death 11 members of a notorious family that ran scam centres in Myanmar, according to Chinese state media.
SEPTEMBER 30, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mahmoud Gheitarani executed in Sanandaj on September 30
- SEPTEMBER 30, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Gholamali Nazarian executed in Kermanshah on September 30
SEPTEMBER 30, 2025FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Victor Tony Jones, 64, Black, was executed on September 30
SEPTEMBER 30, 2025AlabamaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Alabama. Jury sentences Jesse Patrick McClure to death
SEPTEMBER 30, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohsen Ashiri amputated of 4 fingers on September 30
SEPTEMBER 30, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Younes Mardani and Farhad Faraji executed in Isfahan on September 30
- SEPTEMBER 29, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Yaser Bakhshi executed in Semnan on September 29
- SEPTEMBER 29, 2025ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: EX-AGRICULTURE MINISTER SENTENCED TO DEATH WITH REPRIEVE FOR HUGE BRIBES
Tang Renjian, former minister of agriculture and rural affairs, has been sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve for bribery, a court in Changchun, Jilin province, announced on September 28, 2025.
SEPTEMBER 29, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Atash Shakarami sentenced to receive 38 lashes
SEPTEMBER 29, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 2 men sentenced to death on charges of “collaboration with the Zionist regime”
Also accused of having links with the People's Mojahedin Organisation of Iran (MEK)
- SEPTEMBER 29, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Bahman Choubi Asl executed in Ghezel Hesar on September 29
On charges of “intelligence collaboration” with Israel
SEPTEMBER 29, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Isfahan on September 29
Milad Kiani, Mehran Jafari, and Behnam Mirahmad
SEPTEMBER 29, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Qom on September 29
SEPTEMBER 29, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - A woman, Jeyran Zaheri, and Mohammadreza Mohammadi-Berenjgani executed in Isfahan on September 29