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            IRAN. YOUNG MAN HANGED IN PUBLIC
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              | Habib moments prior to the execution |   |  March 7, 2006: a young man was hanged in public in the western city of Qazvin. 
 The daily Iran only identified him as 28-year-old Habib. The execution took place in public in a town square in the presence of the judge who had issued the execution sentence.Habib was accused or armed robbery. (Sources: Iran Focus, 08/03/2006)
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