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IRAN: FIVE PEOPLE HANGED IN EVIN PRISON

28 March 2011 :

Iran secretly hanged five people in Evin prison according to Hrana news agency. One woman, two men and a couple identified as Adiva Mirza Soleiman and Varjoun Petrosian, followers of the Jewish and Christian faiths respectively, were hanged in the prison in Tehran. The regime prevented the families from organising memorial ceremonies.
 
(Sources: NCR-Iran.org, 27/03/2011)

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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.