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MAN HANGED FOR ADULTERY IN SOUTHEAST IRAN
August 14, 2008: a man was hanged in Zahedan, Iran, on charges of adultery. According to the public relations unit of the main judiciary department of Sistan-Baluchestan Province, the suspect Hasan Sadeqpur was sentenced to death by hanging on charges of adultery following a sentence handed down by the provincial penal court. This sentence was carried out in the courtyard of the central Zahedan prison after it was upheld by supreme judiciary bodies and the provincial pardon commission opposed the pardoning of this person. (Sources: BBC, 14/08/2008)
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