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
- JULY 30, 2025FranceDEATH PENALTY
FRANCE: SERGE ATLAOUI RELEASED AFTER YEARS ON INDONESIA DEATH ROW
A Frenchman who spent almost two decades on death row in Indonesia over drug offences before being returned to France left prison on July 18, 2025 after being granted a conditional release.
- JULY 30, 2025ItalyDEATH PENALTY
Tanzania - Update on the Tundu Lissu affair
JULY 30, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Prisoner Executed in Public in Semnan Province on July 30
JULY 30, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Amini executed in Ilam on July 30
JULY 30, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jaber Salami and Abdolzaher Faghirdadi executed in Qom on July 30
JULY 30, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Amputation carried out on 3 men
Hadi Rostami, Mehdi Sharifian and Mehdi Shahivand
JULY 30, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Yousef Amiri executed in Tabriz on July 30
JULY 30, 2025TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Death sentence of David Wood to be reviewed
Appeals court sends case back to trial court
JULY 29, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Navid Rostami executed in Kermanshah on July 29
766 executions in Iran in 2025
JULY 29, 2025LebanonDEATH PENALTYLEBANON: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER KILLING OF IRISH SOLDIER SEÁN ROONEY
A man has been sentenced to death in Lebanon over the killing of an Irish soldier on a UN peacekeeping mission, BBC News reported on July 29, 2025.
- JULY 29, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Nazir Mohammad + Unk executed in Birjand on July 29
JULY 29, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Shabestan executed in Sari on July 29
JULY 29, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Rikani executed in Ahvaz on July 29
- JULY 29, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Arash Mohammadi executed in Nahavand on July 29
- JULY 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Yehuda Hekmati, American-Jewish citizen, arrested
One of the two American-Jewish citizens recently detained in Iran
JULY 28, 2025IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: SUPREME COURT COMMUTES RAPIST'S DEATH PENALTY TO LIFE IN PRISON WITHOUT REMISSION
The Supreme Court of India on July 16, 2025 commuted a man's death penalty in a minor's rape and murder case to life in prison without remission.
JULY 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Isa Narouyi and Amir Ghanbari executed in Minab on July 28
- JULY 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ismail Hajivand executed in Malayer on July 28
JULY 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iran Says Executions Limited To ‘Most Severe Crimes’
After UN Criticism
JULY 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - UN says Iran executions surge ‘deeply disturbing’
JULY 28, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Study: Do All Religions Support the Death Penalty?
- JULY 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Sadeghollah Verdi executed in Tabriz on July 28
JULY 27, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Political prisoners Behrooz Ehsani Eslamlou and Mehdi Hasani executed in Karaj on July 27
JULY 27, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Reza Mirforoughi executed in Isfahan on July 27
- JULY 27, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hamzeh Moradian executed in Khorramabad on July 27
756 executions in 2025
JULY 27, 2025AlabamaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Alabama. URGENT ACTION for David Roberts
Jury voted for life, execution scheduled for August 21
- JULY 27, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Saeed Kashani and Naser Nazari Tehrani executed in Karaj on July 27
JULY 27, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Alireza Mirforughi and Saleh Hatami executed in Isfahan on July 27
JULY 27, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Special forces strormed Ghezel Hesar prison
- JULY 27, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hossein Akbari executed in Arak on July 27