Photos: Two hanged in Iran capital for killing senior judge
Tehran, Iran, Aug. 03 - Authorities hanged two men in public in Tehran on Thursday for killing a senior judge in 2005. The executions took place outside the judiciary headquarters in front of a large crowd as well as Iran's chief of police Brig. Gen. Ismaeil Ahmadi-Moqqaddam and Tehran's chief prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi. Majid Kavousifar and Hossein Kavousifar had been convicted of killing Hassan Moqqaddas in his car in 2005.
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2006 [IRAN]
There were reports of executions after unfair trials. Exiles and human rights monitors alleged that many of those supposedly executed for criminal offenses, such as narcotics trafficking, were political dissidents...
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