22 January 2015 :
One man was hanged in the prison of Torqabeh (near Mashhad, north-eastern Iran) in the morning. According to the Iranian daily newspaper Khorasan, the 26 year old man who was identified as “M. S.” and convicted of murdering another man under a street fight in 2008, was sentenced to qesas (retribution in kind).(Sources: Iran Human Rights, 20/01/2015)
