IRAN: 25 YEAR OLD FATHER OF TWO CHILDREN HANGED PUBLICLY
May 16, 2013: One man was hanged publicly in Noshahr (northern Iran) for murder.
According to the state run Iranian news agency Mehr, the man who was not identified by name, was convicted of murdering another man identified as "Amir Arsalan Sheikh-Abbasi" with knife after a verbal argue in 2008.
The man was a 25 year old father of two children. The execution was carried out at 5.30 AM in public. (Sources: Iran Human Rights, 16/05/2013)
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