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IRAN. MAN PUBLICLY HANGED FOR MURDER OF POLICEMAN
July 13, 2005: Ali Safarpour, a 20 year old Iranian man convicted of killing police officer Hamid Enshadi, was hanged in public in Poldokhtar in the western province of Lorestan. He was only 16 at the time of the alleged offences and had been imprisoned since 2001. (Sources: Agence France Presse, 14/07/2005; Amnesty International; National Council of Resistance in Iran)
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