IRAN: MAN HANGED AT TABAS PRISON
January 29, 2019: According to Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA), on the morning of 24 January 2019 a prisoner was hanged at the prison of Tabas, South Khorasan Province, Iran. He was arrested in the summer of 2017 for murdering two people. Ebrahim Ramezani, the judge of South Khorasan first branch criminal court, said: “the man was a young worker who killed the employer and his wife.” However, the identity of the executed prisoner was not revealed in the report. (Sources: Iran Human Rights, 25/01/2019)
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