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IRAN - Ali Mahmoudpour and Morteza Ashrafi were hanged at Urmia prison on December 4.

05 December 2019 :

Ali Mahmoudpour and Morteza Ashrafi were hanged at Urmia prison on December 4. According to IHR sources, prisoners Ali Mahmoudpour and Morteza Ashrafi were hanged at Urmia prison (also known as Darya prison) on December 4, 2019. They were sentenced to death for murder charges.

 
(Source: IHR)

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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.