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IRAN. SIX EXECUTED AT EVIN PRISON

20 December 2007 :

six people were executed at Evin prison in Iran.
Two of the people were identified by their first names Ghassem and Zahra.
Ghassem was accused of rape and homosexual relations with 15 adolescents, Zahra, a woman, was executed for having killed her husband. The names of the other four people were not provided, either were details of their alleged offences.
 
(Sources: Aki, 19/12/2007)

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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.