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IRAN. FIVE HANGED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING

20 November 2006 :

Iran hanged five men convicted of drug trafficking in the northeastern province of Khorasan Razavi province.
The men, whose names did not appear in the report by the Etemad-Melli daily, were hanged in a prison for trafficking more than 120 kilograms (about 260 pounds) of narcotics.
The execution brings to at least 122 the number of people executed in Iran this year, according to an AFP tally based on press and witness reports.
 
(Fonti: Afp, 18/11/2006)

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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.