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IRAN. YOUNG WOMAN HANGED IN PRISON

12 December 2005 :

a young Iranian woman was hanged in prison in the north-eastern town of Shirevan. The woman, only identified as Akram N., was accused of having killed an older woman in December 2001, when she was an 18-year-old girl, the daily Khorrasan wrote.
The death sentence was carried out at dawn in front of the religious prosecutor and judge, according to the report.
 
(Sources: Iran focus, 08/12/2005)

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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.