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IRAN: ONE WOMAN AND ONE MAN HANGED FOR DRUG-RELATED CHARGES

15 September 2014 :

A 60-year-old woman and a 31-year-old man were hanged in the prison of Rasht for drug trafficking, reported the Iranian State Broadcasting IRIB. The man was charged with possession and trafficking of 4,100 grams of crystal, and the woman with participation in buying, possession, trafficking and distribution of 3,198 grams of heroin. None of the prisoners were identified by name.
 
(Sources: Iran Human Rights, 11/09/2014)

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Urgent actions

URGENT APPEAL BY HANDS OFF CAIN TO AVOID THE ERASING EVIDENCE OF 1980S EXECUTIONS BY DESTROYING BEHESHT-E-ZAHRA SECTION 41 IN IRAN

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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.