Archive timeline
2026
The news published by Hands Off Cain in 2026, month by month, with the countries most present that year.
The year in data
- News items in the archive
- 1,010
Latest news of 2026
JANUARY 26, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 10 men executed on January 26
JANUARY 26, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hrana Report on 30th day of protests: 6,126 confirmed deaths, 17,091 under investigation
JANUARY 26, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIIRAN - Shehla Kakaei shot dead during protests, husband commits suicide
JANUARY 25, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - IHR Report: Hundreds killed during protests in Rasht
JANUARY 25, 2026ArizonaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Arizona.Series of Botched Lethal Injections Highlights Debate Over Execution Methods
JANUARY 25, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hrana Report on 29th day of protests: 5,848 confirmed deaths, 17,091 still under investigation
Total arrests have reached 41,283
JANUARY 25, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Names of 78 women killed in January 2026 Uprising
- JANUARY 25, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 21 men executed in various prisons
Between January 8 and 25
JANUARY 25, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Leila Judaki Hanged in Qom on January 25
5th woman executed in Iran in January 2026
JANUARY 25, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Crackdown on Health Personnel
For Treating Injured Protesters
JANUARY 25, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hrana Report on 28th day of protests: 5,459 confirmed fatalities, 17,031 deaths currently under investigation
JANUARY 24, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hengaw Special Report: protest crackdown amounts to crimes against humanity
At least 3,000 civilians and protesters were killed. Hengaw estimates that approximately 500 members of government security forces were also killed
JANUARY 24, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Identities of 14 more individuals killed in Gilan and Mazandaran confirmed
JANUARY 24, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Amanch Karavanchi and Arsalan Sheikhi executed in Ghezel-Hesar on January 24
Kurdish prisoners of conscience
JANUARY 24, 2026AfghanistanDEATH PENALTYUN EXPERTS PUSH FOR CODIFYING TALIBAN GENDER DISCRIMINATION AS CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY
A group of United Nations experts on January 19, 2026 called on member states to recognize “gender apartheid” as a crime against humanity in a proposed international treaty
JANUARY 23, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hrana Report on 27th day of protests: 5,137 confirmed deaths, 12,904 still under investigation
JANUARY 23, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - “Bullet Fees”
The regime demands large fees from families to release the bodies of the victims
JANUARY 23, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Identities of 12 Kurdish killed in Kermanshah
Nazanin Zahra Salehi, Mohammad Matin Bagheri, Farhad Nazari Gorajouei, Hassan Nouri, Hamidreza Yousefi, Pedram Argha, Farhad Cheraghi, Sayad Faramarzi, Behrouz Narimanimehr, Amirali Abbasifar, Gholamhossein Ahadi, Alireza Eftekhari
JANUARY 23, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Identities of 11 killed in Markazi Province
Ahmad Hashemi, Matin Moshtaghi, Iman Behdari, Saeed Taqvaei, Abolfazl Beikmohammadi, Mohammadreza Najafi, Jaber Salehi, Hassan Ghaderi, Mohammad Ranjbar, Mohammad Soltanifar, Behnam Kashani
JANUARY 23, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Identities of 2 killed in Ilam
Milad Sademiri, Mehdi Ghanbari
JANUARY 23, 2026TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Death Penalty for Cody Pritchard
JANUARY 23, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Identities of ten women killed
Sona Yekta, Mohana Dokoshkani, Setayesh Sousanabadi, Nahayat Rahimi Dashti, Jamileh Shafiei, Hajar Eshaqi, Faeezeh Mostaan, Zahra Azadpour, Fatemeh Abdollahi, Shokoufeh Abdi
JANUARY 23, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Identities of 10 killed in Tehran
Amirhossein Javadzadeh, Omid Fallahipour, Mehdi Aghahosseini, Karim Touni, Mohammad Goli, Artin Abdollahi, Yaser Ezzati Nosratian, Mohammad Mehdi Saifollahpour, Mostafa Afshar, Mehdi Mirzaei, Amirali Parvizi
JANUARY 23, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Identities of 12 killed in Isfahan
Amirreza Fathian, Masih Shahvardi, Soheil Zilabi, Hossein Rahimi, Mohsen Chitsaz, Mohammad-Hossein Mousavi, Pouria Hamzaei, Ali Estakhr, Alireza Kharbo, Alireza Yazdani, Alireza Mousavi, Hamidreza Vatanjou
JANUARY 23, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Identities of 9 university students killed
Artin Abdollahi, Zahra Mahmoudpour, Danial Diani, Ahmadreza Ghaderi, Mohammadreza Alikhani, Hamidreza Vatanjou, Alireza Yazdani, Sina Kazemi, Mostafa Sarafraz Ardakani
JANUARY 23, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Special session of the United Nations Human Rights Council
In Geneva, on January 23
- JANUARY 22, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hrana Report on 26th day of protests: 5002 confirmed fatalities, 9,787 still under investigation
Government Commits Violence, Denies Responsibility, and Continues Mass Arrests
JANUARY 22, 2026AfghanistanDEATH PENALTYAFGHANISTAN: TALIBAN FLOG THREE PEOPLE, INCLUDING WOMAN
Taliban have flogged three people, including a woman, in the northern province of Faryab after convicting them of what they described as “illicit relations” and fleeing home, Amu Tv reported on January 19, 2026.
JANUARY 22, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 killed in Kermanshah and Badreh
Mohanna Dokushkani, Armin Dadfar, Omid Shojaeian
JANUARY 22, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Identifies of 5 killed in Karaj
Mohsen Arbabi, Amin Heidari, Ali Moradi, Amir Mohsen Allahyari, Ashkan Alipour