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IRAN: EXECUTED FOR DRUG SMUGGLING

18 January 2011 :

Iran has hanged a drug smuggler in the southern city of Zarand in Kerman province, ISNA news agency reported. Zarand prosecutor Mehdi Bakhshi said the convict, who was only identified as Ali K., was hanged in the city's prison, ISNA reported. It did not say when the execution was carried out.
 
(Sources: AFP, 18/01/2011)

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UNITED NATIONS - UN advocates universal abolition of death penalty

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IRAN - “Bullet Fees”

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Urgent actions

URGENT APPEAL BY HANDS OFF CAIN TO AVOID THE ERASING EVIDENCE OF 1980S EXECUTIONS BY DESTROYING BEHESHT-E-ZAHRA SECTION 41 IN IRAN

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Documents

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Hands off Cain is an international league of citizens and parliamentarians for the abolition of the death penalty in the world. It is a non-profit, non-violent, transnational and trans-national Partito Radicale founded in Brussels in 1993 and recognized in 2005 by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a development co-operation NGO.