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IRAN: THREE HANGED FOR MURDER, DRUG TRAFFICKING

28 April 2009 :

Iran has hanged three convicted criminals, two murderers and a drug trafficker, in a prison in the southwestern city of Ahvaz, a local newspaper reported.
The report identified the murderers as Ala H. and Mostafa Kh. who were sent to gallows some time in the Iranian month of Farvardin-March 21 until April 20.
The report in the Karoon newspaper did not name the drug trafficker. No additional information was given.
 
(Sources: Afp, 28/04/2009)

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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.