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Ebadi rights group protests Iran mass execution
0 Comments | AFP, July, 2008
TEHRAN (AFP) — The rights group run by Nobel peace laureate Shirin Ebadi on Monday protested at the hanging by Iran of 29 criminals in a mass execution and said it doubted the convicts had been given a fair trial.
"The Defenders of Human Rights Centre... is against capital punishment and believes it should be removed from the list of punishments in any country," the group said in a statement.
"Unfortunately in recent years some have been hanged en masse in Iran so that Iran ranks the second country in the world in terms of the number of executions," it added.
Iran on Sunday hanged 29 men convicted of offences including drug trafficking, murder and rape in the largest mass execution in years.
The latest hangings brought to at least 155 the number of...
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