Thursday 22 January 2015

Young Man Hanged in North-Eastern Iran


Iran Human Rights, January 20, 2015: One man was hanged in the prison of Torqabeh (near Mashhad, north-edam1eastern Iran) Monday morning 19. January. According to the Iranian daily newspaper Khorasan, the 26 year old man who was identified as “M. S.” and convicted of murdering another man under a street fight in 2008, was sentenced to qesas (retribution in kind).