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IRAN: THREE HUNG FOR DRUGS IN ISFAHAN

16 July 2009 :

three men were hanged in a prison in Isfahan, Iran, for drug trafficking. The executions were reported in the Etemad newspaper. The three were identified as Hossein, 45, found guilty of trafficking 143 kg of opium; Nasser, 35, found in possession of 725 gr of crack; and Mohammad Reza, for possession of 'a huge quantity of opium.'
 
(Sources: ANSA, 15/07/2009)

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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.