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IRAN. TWO AFGHANS PUBLICLY HANGED FOR RAPING DUTCH WOMAN

A public hanging in Iran

08 November 2007 :

Iran publicly hanged two Afghans for the rape of a Dutch woman, state news agency IRNA said.
The two were put to death in a square in the city of Saveh, southwest of the capital Tehran. Saveh Public prosecutor Reza Shahkarami did not give details of the case and the Dutch embassy in Tehran was not immediately available for comment.
 
(Sources: Reuters, 07/11/2007)

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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.