IRAN. TWO HANGED FOR DRUG SMUGGLING

13 March 2007 :

two men convicted of armed drug smuggling were publicly hanged in the town of Minab in southern Iran, the ISNA news agency reported. The executed men, identified only as Ali Sh. and Mohammad J., were convicted of transporting several hundred kilos of drugs including opium, heroin and hashish.

(Sources: AFP, 11/03/2007)

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PAKISTAN: SUPREME COURT ACQUITS FATHER ACCUSED OF POISONING SON, OVERTURNS DEATH SENTENCE

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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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