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IRAN: MAN HANGED IN BANDAR-ABBAS

15 July 2011 :

One man was hanged in Bandar-Abbas prison (capital of the Hormozgan province, southern Iran) in the morning.
According to the official Iranian news agency IRNA, a man identified as "Gh. K." (age not mentioned) was convicted of raping and murdering his five-year-old sister-in-law and sentenced to death by the Hormozgan Criminal Court. The sentence was upheld by branch 32 of the Iranian Supreme Court.
 
(Sources: Iran Human Rights, 14/07/2011)

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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.