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IRAN: PRISONER EXECUTED AT MARAGHEH PRISON

07 November 2017 :

According to a close source, on the morning a prisoner was executed at Maragheh Prison (Northwestern Iran) on murder charges.
The prisoner, identified as Hooshang Delijan, 29, was from Hashtrud.
He was arrested and sentenced to death on the charge of murdering a taxi driver in Maragheh four years ago.
The execution of this prisoner has not been announced by the state-run media so far.

 
(Sources: Iran Human Rights, 01/11/2017)

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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.