IRAN HANGS MAN FOR MURDER

23 April 2008 :

Iran hanged a man convicted of murder in a prison in the central city of Isfahan, the Fars news agency reported.
It identified the man as Hassan M, 21, and said he stabbed a man by the name of Mostafa to death three years ago in the hills outside Isfahan.

(Sources: Agence France Presse, 22/04/2008; Iran Human Rights, 23/04/2008)

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