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Send to KindleIran has publicly hanged a man for murdering a female fellow student who refused to marry him.
The 25-year-old, identified only by his first name Kousha, confessed to stabbing the woman to death in front of witnesses on July 06, local media reported.
"I fell in love with Mahsa when I saw her for the first time. I asked her to marry me, but she turned my proposal down," the daily Sharq news paper quoted Kousha as saying during his trial.
"When I found out she might leave the country after graduation, I took my knives and stabbed her," he said.
Kousha was sent to the gallows near the scene of crime in northwest Tehran.
Under sharia law, imposed in Iran after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, crimes like murder, rape, adultery, armed robbery, apostasy and drug trafficking carry the death penalty.
Various human rights groups have criticized Iran for the high number of executions.
Amnesty International reported recently that the number of executions in Iran had sharply increased.
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Currently, over one hundred people are sentenced to death in the Land of the Rising Sun.
After almost two decades of pause, the US federal government has restored the death penalty.
Egypt on Tuesday executed four alleged Islamic militants following their conviction by a military tribunal in the killing of three military academy students in a 2015 bomb attack that wounded six others.
The Kremlin has announced that Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered an “Easter ceasefire” in the war in Ukraine, declaring a temporary halt in hostilities lasting around 36 hours
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Moldovan President Maia Sandu has formally enacted legislation withdrawing the country from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), marking a decisive step in Chisinau’s gradual disengagement from Russian-led structures
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US President Donald Trump has sharply criticized NATO allies over what he described as their unwillingness to support Washington during the war with Iran, following a two-hour meeting with Secretary-General Mark Rutte at the White House
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