IRAN: YOUNG MAN HANGED FOR MURDER
January 19, 2015: One man was hanged in the prison of Torqabeh (near Mashhad, north-eastern Iran) in the morning. According to the Iranian daily newspaper Khorasan, the 26 year old man who was identified as āM. S.ā and convicted of murdering another man under a street fight in 2008, was sentenced to qesas (retribution in kind). (Sources: Iran Human Rights, 20/01/2015)
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