IRAN - A man, identified only as A. A., executed in Mashhad Prison on June 30

For killing his wife

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A man, identified only as A. A., executed in Mashhad Prison on June 30. According to the official Khorasan newspaper, a man was executed in Mashhad Central Prison on June 30. Sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder, he has only been identified as 70-year-old A. A.. He is reported to have been a retired traffic police colonel and had received the death penalty for murdering “his 38-year-old wife on Hashemieh Boulevard in Mashhad” 9 years ago.

https://iranhr.net/en/articles/4797/
https://en.javanehha.com/2021/07/daily-brief-of-human-rights-violation-in-iran-july-6-2021/

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