IRAN HANGS MAN FOR MURDER

25 July 2007 :

Iran hanged a man convicted of murder in the western city of Kermanshah, the official Irna news agency said. Mahmoud Aminzadeh was executed in a prison for killing his wife, two children and two sisters-in-law three years ago.
 
(Sources: Peninsula Online, 25/07/2007)

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URGENT APPEAL BY HANDS OFF CAIN TO AVOID THE ERASING EVIDENCE OF 1980S EXECUTIONS BY DESTROYING BEHESHT-E-ZAHRA SECTION 41 IN IRAN

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