IRAN. MAN PUBLICLY HANGED FOR MURDER

08 March 2006 :

an Iranian man convicted of murder was publicly hanged in southwestern Khuzestan province. The man, identified as Iraj D., was hanged in Shushtar for stabbing another man to death in Sharaft village.
 
(Sources: Agence France Presse, 07/03/2006)

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URGENT APPEAL BY HANDS OFF CAIN TO AVOID THE ERASING EVIDENCE OF 1980S EXECUTIONS BY DESTROYING BEHESHT-E-ZAHRA SECTION 41 IN IRAN

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