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IRAN - A man was hanged in public in Firuraq on June 11.

19 June 2020 :

A man was hanged in public in the city of Firuraq, West Azerbaijan, on Thursday, June 11. IHR reported the news on June 19, taking it from the Azarbakhish website. Thew man, whose name was not given, was sentenced to qisas for killing his mother-in-law and brother-in-law. This is the first recorded public execution in Iran in 2020.

https://iranhr.net/en/articles/4288/

 

 
(Source: IHR)

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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.