two prisoners were secretly hanged in the Lakan Prison in Rasht...

07 February 2012 :

two prisoners were secretly hanged in the Lakan Prison in Rasht, reported Human Rights and Democracy Activists in Iran. They were identified as Ayoub Kalantari, 28 and Mohammad-Reza Sharifi, 40, who was from Baluchistan.

(Sources: Human Rights and Democracy Activists in Iran, 01/02/2012)

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