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2026
The news published by Hands Off Cain in 2026, month by month, with the countries most present that year.
The twelve months
Latest news of 2026
FEBRUARY 8, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Narges Mohammadi sentenced to seven and a half years
Nobel Peace Prize laureate and civil rights activist
- FEBRUARY 7, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hrana Report on Day 42 of the Protests: 6,961 confirmed deaths, 11,630 under review
- FEBRUARY 7, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Victim Accounts: Why Mahsa Dezfulian’s Family Kept Her Body at Home Overnight
FEBRUARY 7, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 13 men executed on February 7
Ali Faza Khoshneshin, Farshad Sheikhi, Avin Sorkhi, Jafar Faryadi, Ali Sarlakabad, Sosha Moradi, Behzad Mashayekhi, Mohammad Ali Saeedloo, Morad Goli, Abolfazl Naqvi + 3
FEBRUARY 7, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 100.000 Iranian exiles demonstrated in Berlin
FEBRUARY 7, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Mirdar executed in Gorgan on February 7
FEBRUARY 7, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Babak Amraei and Mohammadghasem Amraei executed in Khorramabad on February 7
- FEBRUARY 6, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Victim Accounts: Milad Gholami, Protester Whose Body Was Found After One Week
FEBRUARY 6, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Naser Bekrzadeh Sentenced to Death for the Third Time
On charges of “espionage for Israel"
FEBRUARY 6, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hrana Report on Day 41 of the Protests: 6,955 confirmed deaths, 11,630 under review
FEBRUARY 6, 2026FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Judge sentences Angel Cuz Choc to death
FEBRUARY 6, 2026MissouriDEATH PENALTYUSA - Missouri. House passes ‘born alive’ bill that also targets abortions
- FEBRUARY 5, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN Day 40 of the Protests: 6,941 confirmed deaths, 11,630 under review
Domestic Reactions, Continued Arrests, and Forced Confessions
- FEBRUARY 5, 2026DEATH PENALTY
Alabama - HB 41 expanding death penalty to child sex crimes passes Legislature
Florida, Tennessee, Idaho, Oklahoma, and Mississippi enacted similar laws
FEBRUARY 5, 2026SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: WOMAN EXECUTED FOR MURDERING A CHILD IN A CASE THAT SPARKED OUTRAGE
The authorities in Puntland, a semi‑autonomous region of Somalia, have executed a woman convicted of murdering a 14‑year‑old girl, in a rare case in the region in which the death penalty has been carried out against a woman.
FEBRUARY 5, 2026JapanDEATH PENALTYJAPAN: COURT REJECTS RETRIAL REQUEST FOR EXECUTED MAN BELIEVED TO HAVE HAD LEPROSY
The Kumamoto District Court on January 28, 2026 rejected a retrial request from the family of a man with leprosy who was executed more than 60 years ago for a 1952 murder despite long claiming his innocence.
FEBRUARY 5, 2026AlabamaDEATH PENALTYUSA - New Analysis: Why Luigi Mangione can't be sentenced to death
FEBRUARY 5, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - First physical archive of the 2026 massacre presented at a Brussels exhibition
By Hengaw and Mala Kurdî
FEBRUARY 5, 2026United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Pentagon Official Rejects Plea Deal in U.S.S. Cole Bombing Case
Guantanamo trial against Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri to begin in summer
- FEBRUARY 4, 2026New HampshireDEATH PENALTY
USA - New Hampshire. House committee rejects bills to bring back capital punishment
- FEBRUARY 4, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Seven Gurji ethnic people killed in protests identified
Hananeh Azizi, Mohammad Hassan Ashrafi, Masoud Youseyliani, Mohammad Sepiani, Esmail Aslani, Javad Heydari, Reza Karimi
- FEBRUARY 4, 2026North KoreaDEATH PENALTY
NORTH KOREA: PEOPLE ‘EXECUTED FOR WATCHING SOUTH KOREAN TV’, BRIBERY TO ESCAPE PUNISHMENT WIDESPREAD
North Koreans caught watching South Korean television shows face public humiliation, years in labour camps or even execution – with the harshest punishments for those too poor to pay bribes, according to testimonies given to Amnesty International.
- FEBRUARY 4, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 15 people hanged on February 4
FEBRUARY 4, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Day 39 of the Nationwide Protests: 6,883 confirmed deaths, 11,280 under investigation
A Lawmaker’s Remarks on the Suppression of Protests
FEBRUARY 4, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iran HRM Report on 153 minors killed
Extrajudicial Killing during the January 2026 Uprising
- FEBRUARY 4, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 6 people executed in recent days
Iraj Mostafavi, Bakhtiar Shahabi, Hassan Alaeibakhsh, Ali Mohammadpour, Mohammad Javad Namdari, Hashem Abbas
- FEBRUARY 3, 2026FranceDEATH PENALTY
MALAYSIAN COURT ACQUITS FRENCH MAN FACING POSSIBLE DEATH PENALTY ON DRUG CHARGES
A French national facing a possible death penalty in Malaysia on eight drug-related charges was acquitted on February 3, 2026, freeing him after nearly two and a half years in detention.
- FEBRUARY 3, 2026JapanDEATH PENALTY
JAPAN: DEATH ROW INMATE WHO BURIED 2 MEN ALIVE IN 2006 FOUND DEAD IN CELL
A death row inmate convicted of killing two people by burying them alive in Okayama Prefecture in western Japan in 2006, died on January 31, 2026, the Justice Ministry said, with suicide being suspected.
- FEBRUARY 3, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hrana Report on 38° day of protests: 6,872 confirmed deaths, 11,280 under investigation
- FEBRUARY 3, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 2 men executed in Gorgan on February 3
Naser Shahmoradi, Ahmad Borhani