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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
- JANUARY 12, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hrana Report on 16th Day of Protests: Families of Victims Gather at Behesht Zahra Cemetery
JANUARY 12, 2026SingaporeDEATH PENALTYSINGAPORE: TWO CONVICTED DRUG TRAFFICKERS EXECUTED
A 62-year-old and a 54-year-old, both Singaporeans, who were convicted of having in their possession controlled drugs for the purpose of trafficking, had their capital sentences carried out on 9 January 2026.
JANUARY 12, 2026DEATH PENALTYINDIA: HC COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCE TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT FOR ABHI VERMA KIDNAPPING-MURDER CONVICTS
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has commuted to life imprisonment the death penalty of two men convicted for kidnapping and murdering a minor boy for ransom in 2005
JANUARY 12, 2026FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Marking a Decade Since Hurst v. Florida
Non-unanimous death sentences
JANUARY 11, 2026DEATH PENALTYIRAN - Video shows many dead in Tehran
JANUARY 11, 2026DEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iran-HRS Report: 2,046 arrested
- JANUARY 10, 2026DEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hrana Report on the 14th day of protests
116 persons killed
JANUARY 10, 2026DEATH PENALTYIRAN - IRGC Announces Arrest of a Foreign National on Charges of “Espionage”
Such claims are consistently met with skepticism
JANUARY 10, 2026DEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mahmoud Mousavi killed during the protests
JANUARY 10, 2026DEATH PENALTYUSA - California. Lush Cosmetics Launches Campaign to End Death Penalty
JANUARY 10, 2026DEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mass Killing of Protesters: The International Community Must Stop This Crime
- JANUARY 9, 2026DEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mehdi Zatparvar, athlete from Rasht, killed by direct gunfire
- JANUARY 9, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN Iran-HRS Year End Report: 2228 executions
The Bloodiest Year in the Past Four Decades
- JANUARY 9, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Jalil Doustyar Barahoui killed on January 9
JANUARY 9, 2026DEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hrana Report on the 13th day of protests
65 killed, 2,311 arrested
JANUARY 9, 2026DEATH PENALTYIRAN - Wncri Report on 13th day of protests
54 slain protesters
JANUARY 9, 2026DEATH PENALTYIRAN - IHR Report on 13th day of protests
Death Toll Rises to at Least 51
JANUARY 9, 2026DEATH PENALTYIRAN - Javad Ganji killed during the protests
JANUARY 9, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hengaw Report: 13 people killed on January 8 and 9 in Tehran
Setayesh Shafiei, Ahmad Ebadi Kamand, Ali Anbarestani, Arash Behfar, Ata Ebrahimpour, Amirali Kiani, Hassan Shakhesi, Daniel Maranki, Mohammad Entezami, Amir Mohammad Yazdani, Arash Yazdani, Mohammad Mohammadi-Mohab, Ali Rezaei
JANUARY 9, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 6 killed in Isfahan on January 9
Abolfazl Bakhtiari Douraki, Farzin Rahimi Douraki, Khani Asadi, Shahram Maqsoudi, Mohsen Asadi, Navid Alam-Chehreh
JANUARY 9, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 killed in Karaj on January 8 and 9
Mohammadreza Zamini, Abolfazl Arvin-Talab, Moein Gholami
JANUARY 9, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Four killed during protests in Razavi Khorasan
Mohammad-Amin Hosseini, Sajad Ordouni Kabir, Mousa al-Reza Akbari e Abolfazl Paydar
JANUARY 9, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Amir Ali Jalilian killed on January 9
- JANUARY 8, 2026DEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Iranian forces killed Robina Aminian during protests
- JANUARY 8, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 5 killed in Tehran on January 8
Saeed Shirali, Alireza Salmani, Babak Sadeghi Mohseni, Ali Molaaqaei Rouzbehani, Ali Janani
- JANUARY 8, 2026DEATH PENALTY
IRAN - IHR report on 8th day of protests
45 killed
- JANUARY 8, 2026DEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Report on 12th day of protests
At Least 45 protesters killed, including 8 Children
JANUARY 8, 2026DEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed on January 8
JANUARY 8, 2026DEATH PENALTYIRAN - At least five Kurdish men shot dead by Iranian forces in Kermanshah protests
Keyvan Rezaei, Yasin Mirzaei, Behrouz Safaei, Saman Nazari, Sayyad Faramarzi
JANUARY 8, 2026DEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ebrahim Yousefi killed by direct gunfire