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IRAN: FIVE PEOPLE EXECUTED IN TEHRAN
October 21, 2009: one woman and four men were executed in Tehran’s Evin prison early the morning. Soheila Ghadiri, 30, was convicted of killing her new born baby (5 days old) in 2006. In the court she had said: "I escaped from home and got married to the boy I loved, at the age of 16. He died in an accident and after that I started with prostitution and drug addiction. I got HIV and hepatitis. When my baby was born, I killed her because I didn’t want he to have the same destiny as mine". The four men, who were executed after being convicted of murder, were: Mohammad Hassan B, 25, Mehran, age not mentioned, Ali, 32, and Saeed, 32. (Sources: Iran Human Rights, 21/10/2009)
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