IRAN: MAN HANGED IN ORUMIEH PRISON
October 25, 2011: Selah Abedini was executed in Orumieh prison early in the morning, Kurdish website rojhelat.nu reported.
He was convicted of drug-dealing. Abedini had been held in the prison since 2009.
Including this case, 515 people have been executed in Iran since the beginning of 2011, according to rojhelat.nu. (Sources: rojhelat.nu, 25/10/2011)
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