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IRAN: YASSER ABDOLLAHZADEH HANGED AT THE CENTRAL PRISON OF SHIRAZ CITY

22 June 2020 :

A man was hanged on 16 June 2020 at the central prison of Shiraz city for murder. According to IHR sources, on the morning of 16 June death row prisoner Yasser Abdollahzadeh (31) was hanged at Shiraz central prison (Adel Abad). He was arrested and sentenced to death for murdering a man over financial disputes three years ago. His execution has not been announced by Iranian authorities or the media so far.

 
(Source: IHR, 20/06/2020)

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URGENT APPEAL BY HANDS OFF CAIN TO AVOID THE ERASING EVIDENCE OF 1980S EXECUTIONS BY DESTROYING BEHESHT-E-ZAHRA SECTION 41 IN IRAN

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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.