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IRAN: AT LEAST EIGHT PRISONERS HANGED IN RAJAI SHAHR PRISON

07 September 2018 :

A group of eight prisoners were hanged in Rajai Shahr Prison. Charged with murder, the victims were identified as Reza Ghasemi, Zolalzadeh, Amir Amindokht, Seyed Mahmood Hosseini, Mehdi Tajik, Akbar Salimi, Kazem Ibrahimkhani and Shahab Taghizadeh.

 
(Sources: HRM, 06/09/2018)

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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.