IRAN: HANGED IN PUBLIC FOR MURDER

11 June 2010 :

One man was hanged in public in the town of Sarab, northwest Iran. According to the official Iranian news agency IRNA, the man was hanged in the Chamran square of the town, which is near Tabriz in northwestern Iran. The man who was identified as "M. H." was convicted of murder by a kalashnikov.

(Sources: Iran Human Rights, 10/06/2010)

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