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IRAN: THREE PEOPLE HANGED

Drug traffickers after being executed in Iran

23 May 2011 :

Three people were hanged in Oroumieh prison in northwestern Iran early this morning, reported the Kurdish news website Mukriannews.
According to the report, one of the men was identified as "Changiz Nouri" from Oroumieh, and the two others who were not identified by name were from Shiraz.
All the three prisoners were convicted of drug related charges, said the report.
The executions have not been announced by the official Iranian sources.
 
(Sources: Iran Human Rights, 22/05/2011)

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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.