IRAN. TWO AFGHAN BROTHERS HANGED
December 17, 2007: Iran hanged two convicted Afghan nationals for murder in the central city of Isfahan, press reports said. Two brothers, identified only as Afghan nationals, were executed in Isfahan prison for fatally stabbing a 25 year old woman and strangling her two and half year old son with a cable, the Etemad newspaper said. Their motive for the killings was robbery. (Sources: Agence France Presse, 18/12/2007)
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