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2026
The news published by Hands Off Cain in 2026, month by month, with the countries most present that year.
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Latest news of 2026
FEBRUARY 26, 2026United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Guantanamo. Government Still Building Case for U.S.S. Cole Trial 25 Years After Attack
FEBRUARY 25, 2026BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 2 TO DIE FOR COLLEGE STUDENT MURDER IN CAPITAL
A Dhaka court on February 22, 2026 sentenced two men to death for the planned murder of Tejgaon College student Ikram Hossain Mollah, 22, in the capital’s Khilkhet area.
FEBRUARY 25, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Execution of At Least Twelve People on February 25
Kianoush Monavari, Ghader Mohammadi, Nariman Zangeneh, Ali Asghar Oladi, … Shateri, Mostafa Kamali, Aysan Rostami, Jahan Azadi, Farshid Ghasemi, Taher Yousefi, Hamid Tajik, Adel Fereshteh
FEBRUARY 25, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Victim accounts: Keyvan Amiri, Bullet Wound and Stab Injury
- FEBRUARY 24, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - The 109th Week of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” Campaign
- FEBRUARY 24, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Seven minors arrested in five cities
Mohammadreza Asadi, Mohammad Javad Zeinivand, Mohammad Piri, Ali Zeinivandi, Masih Inalouei, Diana Taherabadi, Taha Ali Mirzaei
FEBRUARY 24, 2026FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Melvin Trotter, 65, Black, was executed on February 24
FEBRUARY 24, 2026LebanonDEATH PENALTYLEBANON: HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE APPROVES DRAFT TO ABOLISH DEATH PENALTY
Lebanon’s human rights committee has approved a draft to abolish the death penalty.
FEBRUARY 24, 2026AfghanistanDEATH PENALTYAFGHANISTAN: UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT SAYS APPEASEMENT OF THE TALIBAN HAS FAILED
Annalena Baerbock, President of the United Nations General Assembly, described attempts to appease the Taliban as unsuccessful in the face of the most severe human rights violations
FEBRUARY 24, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN -Two Kurdish political prisoners, Mohammad Faraji and Raouf Sheikh Maroufi, sentenced to death
Arrested during the Woman, Life, Freedom (Jin, Jiyan, Azadi) protests
- FEBRUARY 23, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Nationwide Protests: Mohammad Abbasi Sentenced to Death, His Daughter to 25 Years in Prison
FEBRUARY 23, 2026IraqDEATH PENALTYIRAQ: ALLEGED ISIS DETAINEES TRANSFERRED FROM SYRIA AT RISK OF ABUSE
The United States transferred 5,700 detainees held for alleged ISIS affiliation from Northeast Syria to Iraq, where they are at risk of enforced disappearance, unfair trials, torture, ill-treatment, and violations of the right to life, Human Rights Watch
FEBRUARY 23, 2026IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: UP COUPLE GETS DEATH FOR SEXUALLY ASSAULTING 33 CHILDREN
A couple was sentenced to death on February 20, 2026 by a court in Uttar Pradesh after being convicted in a case of sexual assault of 33 children, some of them as young as three years old.
FEBRUARY 23, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Protests: 19-year-old Mohammad Amin Biglari sentenced to death
FEBRUARY 23, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hrana Report: The Crimson Winter
A 50 Day Record of 2025–2026 Protests
FEBRUARY 23, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - At least 10 men executed on February 23
- FEBRUARY 22, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Four women arrested
Shavar Karimzadeh, Farzaneh Fasihi, Saba Ahmadi, Fariba Ghahremani
FEBRUARY 22, 2026JapanDEATH PENALTYJAPAN: COURT REJECTS RETRIAL FOR MAN EXECUTED FOR 1992 CHILD MURDERS
The Fukuoka High Court rejected an appeal on February 16, 2026 for a retrial for the 1992 murder of two 7-year-old girls in the city of Iizuka in Fukuoka Prefecture, for which a death row convict was executed.
FEBRUARY 22, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Nirvana Torbatinezhad and her mother, Roqiyeh Amirkhani, arrested during a 40th day commemoration
FEBRUARY 22, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Habib Rasoulzadeh executed in Semnan on February 22
- FEBRUARY 22, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Javad Masoumi executed in Ardabil on February 22
FEBRUARY 21, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 19 people arrested for participating in 40th day commemorations
Lors in Khuzestan Province
FEBRUARY 21, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Victim Accounts: 17-Year-Old Bahareh Shahmehri Shot Dead by Sniper
- FEBRUARY 21, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 11 men executed on February 21
FEBRUARY 21, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehrdad Ghaeni executed in Qom on February 21
FEBRUARY 20, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - British Nationals Craig and Lindsay Foreman Sentenced to Ten Years in Prison
FEBRUARY 20, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abdollah Poreki killed under torture
FEBRUARY 20, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Victim Accounts: Nighttime Burial of Mohammad Ranjbar Hosseinabadi
FEBRUARY 20, 2026CaliforniaDEATH PENALTYUSA - California. Governor Newsom inaugurates the transformation of San Quentin
He calls it “the nation's most innovative rehabilitation facility.”
- FEBRUARY 19, 2026TexasDEATH PENALTY
USA - Texas. 4 men formally declared “innocent” 35 years after their arrest
Michael Scott, Forrest Welborn, Robert Springsteen, Maurice Pierce