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IRAN: 2 PUBLIC EXECUTIONS

18 May 2018 :

According to an IRIB News Agency's report, on the morning two prisoners were hanged in public in Mashhad.
The prisoners were sentenced to death on rape charges.
According to Iran Human Rights (IHR)'s annual report on the death penalty, 31 prisoners were hanged in public in 2017.

 
(Source: Iran Human Rights, May 15, 2018)

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Hands off Cain is an international league of citizens and parliamentarians for the abolition of the death penalty in the world. It is a non-profit, non-violent, transnational and trans-national Partito Radicale founded in Brussels in 1993 and recognized in 2005 by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a development co-operation NGO.