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IRAN: THREE EXECUTIONS IN TABRIZ

29 November 2017 :

According to a report by HRANA News Agency, on the morning three prisoners were executed at Tabriz Central Prison (Northwestern Iran). The prisoners were sentenced to death on murder charges.
One of the prisoners was identified as Taher Amini, 30, from Maragheh. The prisoner was from ward 9 of Tabriz Central Prison. The two other prisoners, who were from ward 12, have not been identified.
The execution of these prisoners has not been announced by the state-run media so far.

 
(Sources: Iran Human Rights, 27/11/2017)

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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.