IRAN: MAN HANGED FOR RAPE

12 January 2011 :

one man was hanged in Tehran’s Evin prison early this morning.
According to the Iranian news agency Aftab, the man was identified as Farzad Alizadeh (age not known), convicted of rape in 2009.
 
(Sources: Iran Human Rights, 12/01/2011)

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