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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 7, 2025ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: FORMER OFFICIAL OF MINISTRY SENTENCED TO DEATH WITH TWO-YEAR REPRIEVE FOR LEAKING STATE SECRETS
China's Ministry of State Security (MSS) on September 4, 2025 revealed that a former official of a state ministry was lured into befriending a spy, then blackmailed using compromising information, ultimately leading to his conviction for espionage and a d
SEPTEMBER 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 5 men executed in Tabriz on September 7
Keyvan Mamadi, Najib Azarm, Babak Omarzadeh, Houshang Hanareh, and Tawfiq Ne’mati
SEPTEMBER 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Mirbaluchzehi executed in Manujan on September 7
SEPTEMBER 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ahmad Rafiei and Abdolreza Karimi executed in Arak on September 7
SEPTEMBER 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Masoud Ghanbarzehi executed in Zahedan on September 7
SEPTEMBER 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Dariush Bahrami executed in Karaj on September 7
SEPTEMBER 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Taleb Tavakoli executed in Dezful on September 7
- SEPTEMBER 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Sadegh Bahmani and Mojtaba Salemi executed in Tabriz on September 7
7 executions in Tabriz that day
SEPTEMBER 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Shahriar Dehvari executed in Babolsar on September 7
SEPTEMBER 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Further information on the execution of Najib Azarm in Tabriz on 7 September
- SEPTEMBER 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Azad Moradi executed in Sanandaj on September 6
SEPTEMBER 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Isfahan on September 6
Taher Rasoulpour, Mohammad Bikar, Moslem Salehkhani
SEPTEMBER 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehran Bahramian executed in Isfahan on September 6
A “Woman, Life, Freedom” proteste
- SEPTEMBER 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Farzad Mohibi executed in Qazvin on September 6
SEPTEMBER 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Yasin Afshari executed in Qom on September 6
- SEPTEMBER 5, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - A Conservative against the death penalty
Demetrius Minor, director of Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty
- SEPTEMBER 4, 2025ItalyDEATH BY PUNISHMENT
ITALY - Hands off Cain in Venice 2025
“The Human Rights Barrier”
SEPTEMBER 4, 2025AfghanistanDEATH PENALTYAFGHANISTAN: TALIBAN PUBLICLY FLOGS 13 PEOPLE FOR ADULTERY AND DRUG-RELATED OFFENSES
The Taliban publicly flogged 13 people, including a woman, in Kabul over the past two days for adultery and drug-related offenses, the group’s supreme court announced on September 2, 2025.
SEPTEMBER 4, 2025IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: UP MAN GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR RAPE, MURDER OF 8-YEAR-OLD DALIT GIRL
A special SC/ST court in Mathura (Uttar Pradesh) on September 2, 2025 awarded the death penalty to a 50-year-old man for abducting, raping and murdering an eight-year-old Dalit girl in 2020, calling it a "rarest of rare case for its brutality".
SEPTEMBER 4, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unidentified man executed in Bushehr on September 4
- SEPTEMBER 4, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ebrahim Safari executed in Yazd on September 4
- SEPTEMBER 4, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Yazd on September 4
Mohammad Salehi, Ebrahim Safari, Mohsen Amiri
SEPTEMBER 4, 2025OklahomaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Oklahoma. Updates on the Glossip case
SEPTEMBER 3, 2025IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: DEATH PENALTY FOR MAN WHO BURNT ALIVE WIFE OVER SKIN COLOUR
A court in India on August 30, 2025 gave the death penalty to a man for burning alive his wife over her skin colour.
SEPTEMBER 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Valiollah Avazpour executed in Gachsaran on September 3
SEPTEMBER 3, 2025ItalyDEATH PENALTYTANZANIA - Update on the situation of Tundu Lissu
Lissu's vicissitudes brought to the Venice Film Festival
- SEPTEMBER 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 4 men executed in Qom on September 3
Mehrdad Iravani, Rouhollah Hakemi, Nezam Hakemi, Allahbakhsh Mirjahani
SEPTEMBER 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 6 men executed in Karaj on September 3
Habib Atayi, Reza Aghajani, Sajad Sadeghi, Naser… + 2 Unk
- SEPTEMBER 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - A.F. executed in unspecified prison on September 3
- SEPTEMBER 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Abolfazl Asgari and … Darvishpour executed in Tabriz on September 3