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IRAN - Ghafour Gari was hung in public in the city of Aq Qala on Feb. 24.

28 June 2019 :

Ghafour Gari was hung in public in the city of Aq Qala (Aqqala) on Feb. 24. The man, whose age is not known, had been convicted for rape and murder. Fars did not elaborate the prisoner by name, but human rights activists identified the man Ghafour Gari.

 
(Source, FARS, Iran HRM)

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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.