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06 March 2006 :

Hossein S., 24, was hanged in Qazvin, northern Iran, for raping two women after breaking into a beauty parlour and threatening them with a knife. The report did not say whether the hanging was carried out in public.

(Sources: Agence France Presse, 05/03/2006)

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