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IRAN. MAN EXECUTED FOR ARMED ROBBERY

04 October 2006 :

a man was hanged in the city of Ahwaz, south-west Iran, the government-run news agency Fars reported.
The man identified as 32-year-old Abbas A. (alias Za’bil) was hanged after he was convicted of armed robbery of livestock.
Two other men identified as 45-year-old Hamid Kh. and 37-year-old Ali S. (alias Ka’bi) were also sentenced to death for taking part in the thefts.
The report said that their sentences would soon be carried out in public.
 
(Sources: Iran Focus, 04/10/2006)

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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.