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IRAN: TWO PRISONERS HANGED IN AHWAZ

09 October 2013 :

Two prisoners were hanged in the prison of Ahwaz (southwestern Iran), reported the state run Iranian news agencies.
According to the Iranian State Broadcasting the prisoners were convicted of possession and trafficking of 8 kilos and 500 grams and keeping and possession of 740 grams of heroin.
None of the prisoners were identified by name.
 
(Sources: Iran Human Rights, 08/10/2013)

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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.