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
- SEPTEMBER 13, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - What’s Behind the Execution Surge of 2025?
SEPTEMBER 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hafez Ghavidast executed in Rasht on September 13
SEPTEMBER 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Rouhollah Rostami executed in Hamedan on September 13
SEPTEMBER 12, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Political prisoner Naser Bekrzadeh sentenced to death
For the second time
SEPTEMBER 11, 2025IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: HC REDUCES DEATH SENTENCE TO LIFE, JUNKS RAPE CHARGE
The Calcutta High Court on September 1st, 2025, commuted the death penalty of a 42-year-old man convicted of the murder of a six-year-old at Uttarpara to life imprisonment
SEPTEMBER 11, 2025SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA EXECUTES TWO SOLDIERS CONVICTED OF AIDING AL-SHABAAB IN COMMANDER’S KILLING
Two members of the Somali National Army (SNA) were executed on August 11, 2025, following convictions by the Armed Forces Court over links with the al-Shabaab fighters, a group that has destabilized peace in the country for two decades.
SEPTEMBER 11, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Update on the condition of the Foremans
British nationals arrested while crossing Iran on motorbikes
SEPTEMBER 11, 2025Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: MAN EXECUTED FOR ‘JOINING A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION’
Saudi authorities on September 9, 2025 executed Sultan bin Amer bin Abdullah Al-Shehri, bringing the total number of executions in 2025 close to 300.
SEPTEMBER 11, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hadigheh Abadi and Younes Mazarshams executed in Qazvin on September 11
Wife and husband
- SEPTEMBER 10, 2025IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: 3 GET DEATH FOR KILLING RICKSHAW PULLER OVER WIFE’S ILLICIT AFFAIR; 2 GET LIFE, WOMAN ACQUITTED
A Dehradun court on August 22, 2025 awarded the death penalty to three men for murdering a rickshaw puller in Nov 2022 by forcing him to drink alcohol and smashing his head with a stone.
SEPTEMBER 10, 2025SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA EXECUTES THREE AL-SHABAAB MILITANTS CONVICTED OF DEADLY ATTACKS IN MOGADISHU AND LOWER SHABELLE
Somalia’s military court has carried out the death sentence by firing squad against three convicted members of the militant group Al-Shabaab, officials confirmed on August 14, 2025 morning.
SEPTEMBER 10, 2025IndonesiaDEATH PENALTYINDONESIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR TRAFFICKING ECSTASY PILLS
A North Sumatra court on September 4, 2025 sentenced 36-year-old M. Alfarisi to death for acting as a courier in the trafficking of nearly 4,833 ecstasy pills.
SEPTEMBER 10, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Behzad Parsa and Abdollah Mohseni executed in Gorgan on September 10
SEPTEMBER 10, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Youssef Asadi Kahbad and Ahmad Bani Asad executed in Ahvaz on September 10
SEPTEMBER 10, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Rasoul Khanmohammadi executed in Gorgan on September 10
- SEPTEMBER 9, 2025SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALIA: TWO KHARIJITES EXECUTED FOR MURDERS IN MOGADISHU
The Military Court of the Armed Forces on August 20, 2025 carried out the execution of two convicted members of the Kharijite terrorist group, who were found guilty of committing multiple murders in the capital, Mogadishu.
SEPTEMBER 9, 2025AfghanistanDEATH PENALTYAFGHANISTAN: TALIBAN HANG MAN IN PUBLIC IN HERAT AFTER EXECUTION-STYLE SHOOTING
Sources have confirmed that Taliban members in western Afghanistan shot a man dead and hanged his body in public on August 22, 2025.
- SEPTEMBER 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Javad Mohammadpanah and Hamid Farjam executed in Qom on September 9
- SEPTEMBER 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Saman Abdoli executed in Dezful on September 9
- SEPTEMBER 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ali Razavi executed in Kerman on September 9
SEPTEMBER 8, 2025SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: SECURITY FORCES EXECUTE TWO AL-SHABAAB MILITANTS IN MOGADISHU BY FIRING SQUAD
The Somali authorities on August 25, 2025 executed Anas Abdulqadir Ali Mahmoud “Salman” and Aden Mursal Mohamed Lidow, members of the Al-Shabaab terrorist group, who were convicted of carrying out bombings and targeted killings.
SEPTEMBER 8, 2025Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: WOMAN EXECUTED IN MECCA FOR KILLING HUSBAND WITH ACID
Saudi authorities said on September 7, 2025 they had carried out the execution of a Saudi woman in the western region of Mecca after she was convicted of murdering her husband by pouring acid on him as he slept.
SEPTEMBER 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 1,008 executions since the beginning of 2025
By 31 December the death toll could reach 1,500
- SEPTEMBER 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammadali Gholizadeh executed in Malayer on September 8
- SEPTEMBER 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ahmad Shamlu executed in Hamedan on September 8
- SEPTEMBER 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unidentified man executed in Lordegan on September 8
- SEPTEMBER 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Javad Mohammad-Panah executed in Qom on September 8
- SEPTEMBER 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Omid Rahmani and Kamyar Najafzadeh executed in Kermanshah on September 8
SEPTEMBER 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Political Prisoner Pejman Toubrehrizi sentenced to death
On the charge of membership in the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran
SEPTEMBER 7, 2025Sri LankaDEATH PENALTYSRI LANKA: WOMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR POSSESSING AND TRAFFICKING HEROIN
Colombo High Court Judge R.S.S. Sapuwidha on September 4, 2025 sentenced a 52-year-old married woman to death after finding her guilty of possessing and trafficking 41.65 grams of heroin.