IRAN. YOUNG WOMAN HANGED IN PRISON
December 7, 2005: a young Iranian woman was hanged in prison in the north-eastern town of Shirevan. The woman, only identified as Akram N., was accused of having killed an older woman in December 2001, when she was an 18-year-old girl, the daily Khorrasan wrote.
The death sentence was carried out at dawn in front of the religious prosecutor and judge, according to the report. (Sources: Iran focus, 08/12/2005)
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