IRAN HANGS A MAN FOR MURDER

18 December 2008 :

Iran hanged a man according to a Fars news agency report. Shahab Shahabi was convicted of murder and was executed in a prison in the western city of Shahr-e Kord.

(Sources: Agence France Presse, 08/12/2008)

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