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 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Rahman Ali Akbari executed in Kermanshah on September 3
SEPTEMBER 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Seyed Kazem Mousavi executed in Rasht on September 3
- SEPTEMBER 2, 2025LaosDEATH PENALTY
LAOS: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR METH TRAFFICKING
The Xayabouly Provincial People’s Court on August 27,2025 sentenced a 29-year-old man to death after convicting him of trafficking methamphetamine and crystal meth. The ruling became public on 30 August.
SEPTEMBER 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Bijan Hosseinpanah executed in Zanjan on September 2
SEPTEMBER 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Houman Geravand executed in Karaj on September 2
SEPTEMBER 2, 2025AfghanistanDEATH PENALTYAFGHANISTAN: TALIBAN TEACHER’S DEATH SENTENCE TO BE REVIEWED BY APPEALS COURT
The case of an Afghan teacher sentenced to death for alleged blasphemy will go before a Taliban appeals court by the end of September, local sources in Paktika province said on August 31, 2025.
SEPTEMBER 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Babaei executed in Sanandaj on 2 September
- SEPTEMBER 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Jalal Moradi executed in Kermanshah on September 2
- SEPTEMBER 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mahan Rashidi and Yaghoub Derikvand executed in Aligudarz on September 2
- SEPTEMBER 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unidentified man executed in Bushehr on September 2
SEPTEMBER 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 1 woman 2 men executed in Zanjan on September 2
Gohar Taheri Aghdam, Bijan Hosseinpanah and Ahmad Alipour
SEPTEMBER 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jalal Moradi executed in Kermanshah on September 2
- SEPTEMBER 2, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Naser Mahi-Dashti executed in Kerman on September 2
- SEPTEMBER 1, 2025Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
DRC: MILITARY PROSECUTOR SEEKS DEATH PENALTY AGAINST FORMER PRESIDENT KABILA
A military prosecutor on August 21, 2025 demanded the death penalty for DR Congo's former president Joseph Kabila who is on trial in absentia on treason charges.
- SEPTEMBER 1, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ali Mirza Gholikhani executed in Rasht on August 31
SEPTEMBER 1, 2025AfghanistanDEATH PENALTYAFGHANISTAN: SIX FLOGGED IN KABUL AS TALIBAN INTENSIFY PUBLIC PUNISHMENTS
The Taliban on August 30, 2025 publicly flogged six people in the Afghan capital after convicting them of drug‑related offenses, the group’s Supreme Court said.
SEPTEMBER 1, 2025IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: ASSAM MAN, WHO KILLED WOMAN FOR REFUSING TO MARRY HIM, SENTENCED TO DEATH
A court in Assam's Dhemaji on August 21, 2025 sentenced a man to death for the brutal murder of a college student in 2021.
- AUGUST 31, 2025ItalyDEATH BY PUNISHMENT
ITALY - Humand rights at the Venice Film Festival
AUGUST 31, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Akbar Abbaspour executed in Sanandaj on August 31
- AUGUST 31, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ali Yavari executed in Hamedan on August 31
AUGUST 31, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Esmail Delavari and Armin Reyhani executed in Shiraz on August 31
950 executions since the beginning of 2025
- AUGUST 31, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Soleiman Koushki executed in Karaj on August 31
AUGUST 31, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hamed Barahouyi executed in Zahedan on August 31
160 executions in August
- AUGUST 31, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Jasem Nouri executed in Arak on August 31
AUGUST 31, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Urmia on August 31
Javad Ali, Rahman Javan, and Morteza Zichi
- AUGUST 31, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Esmaeil Delavar and Arman Reyhani executed in Shiraz on August 31
- AUGUST 31, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Jasem Nowruzi executed in Arak on August 31
- AUGUST 31, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Emad Ghaedi executed in Borazjan on August 31
AUGUST 31, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Amar Hassani executed in Ahvaz on August 31
- AUGUST 31, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Rostam Shokrollahi executed in Taybad on August 31
169 executions in August