Manuchehr Najafi hanged in Tehran over 9 kilos of hashish
Manuchehr Najafi was hanged in Tehran's Evin prison on 12 January 2011 for buying and selling 9 kilos of hashish. He was one of eight men executed that morning, seven of them for drug trafficking.
Manuchehr Najafi, son of Farman, was hanged in Tehran’s Evin prison on the morning of 12 January 2011 for buying and selling 9 kilos of hashish.[1]The Abdorrahman Boroumand Center memorial records his killing by hanging in Tehran on that date on drug-trafficking charges.[2]
Najafi was one of eight men hanged that morning; seven had been convicted of drug trafficking and one of rape, according to Iranian agency reporting.[1]With these executions, the count for the first twelve days of 2011 reached 36 people.[1]
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