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Iran sentences two men to death (UPDATE)

Iran Materials 30 January 2011 19:11 (UTC +04:00)
Tehran Prosecutor Abbas Jafari-Dolatabadi says Iran's Revolution Court has sentenced two men convicted in creating website with pornographic content to death penalty, IRNA reported.
Iran sentences two men to death (UPDATE)

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Tehran Prosecutor Abbas Jafari-Dolatabadi says Iran's Revolution Court has sentenced two men convicted in creating website with pornographic content to death penalty, IRNA reported.

Names and details of them were not disclosed.

According to Prosecutor, Iran's Revolution Court also considers the case of seven men, accused in anti-religious activities.

According to The Human Rights Watch statistics, over the last month Iran executed 73 people.

On Thursday, the EU High Representative for Foreign Policy Catherine Ashton's statement was disseminated, which states that the number of executions in Iran has reached horrific scales. In her statement Ashton called on the Islamic Republic to observe international obligations.

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