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IRAN - Morteza Refahi executed at Rasht Central Prison on July 25.

07 November 2020 :

 

Morteza Refahi executed at Rasht Central Prison on July 25. According to the HRANA news agency, one prisoner was executed at Rasht Central Prison on Saturday 25 July. His identity has been established as Morteza Refahi, who was around 40 years old. He was arrested about four years ago and sentenced to death for “murdering his uncle’s wife”.

https://iranhr.net/en/articles/4357/

 
(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.