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Iran: A man hanged-Human Rights

A man hanged in IranNCRI – Iranian regime has hanged a man in the southern city of Shiraz, the state-run daily Khorasan reported.

The prisoner, only identified as Amir Kh. was hanged  sometimes “late last week,” in the city’s Adelabad prison, the report added.  He was charged with murder.

On April 10, Mohsen Eslamian, 21, and Ali Asghar Pashtar, 20 – both university students – and Rouzbeh Yahyazadeh, 32, were hanged in the same prison. Last year, the Iranian regime’s Judiciary charged them as “mohareb” (enemies of God), “spreading corruption on earth” and accused them of “conspiring to overthrow the government.”

Since the beginning of 2009 some 100 people have been hanged in Iran. Last year Iran under mullahs’ rule had the highest rate of executions per capita in the world with over 340 executions.