IRAN: MAN EXECUTED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING

01 February 2012 :

One prisoner was hanged in the prison Zanjan (western Iran) early this morning.
According to the state run Iranian news agency Fars, the man who was not identified by name was convicted of drug trafficking and sentenced to death by the revolutionary court in Abhar. No further details were given in the report.

(Source: Iran Human Rights, 30/01/2012)

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