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IRAN: PRISONER EXECUTED AT GONBAD KAVOUS PRISON FOR MURDER
September 30, 2020: According to the Iran newspaper website, on the morning of 28 September 2020, a man sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) was executed at Gonbad Kavous Prison. The prisoner, who is yet to be identified, had been accused of killing two teenagers when he was 21 years old. According to the article, the executed death row inmate had "cited revenge as the motive for the murder and had said to have had an argument with Adnan, one of the two teenagers killed, over an issue," which they agreed to resolve on 28 July 2017, the day the teenagers went missing, outside the city. “But after not reaching an agreement, I killed him with a knife and fearing that I would be exposed, I killed Adnan’s friend who had witnessed the incident.” (Sources: IHR, 28/09/2020)
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