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Iran Focus
 Tehran, Iran, Dec. 27 – Iranian authorities hanged a
young man in the Kurdish town of Saqqez, a Persian-language
opposition website reported on Tuesday.
Hambastegi Meli
reported that 23-year-old Farhad Saleh-Pour was hanged in the restive town.
Last week, Iran
executed a Kurdish political prisoner who had been jailed since 1996 for
allegedly killing an agent of the notorious Ministry of Intelligence and
Security.
The man known as Aziz was a Kurdish activist held
in Orumieh Prison.
Aziz was originally from a village called Biouran in the western province of Kurdistan.
Kurdistan Province has been a hotbed of
anti-government protests and clashes over the past year. Iranian
authorities have launched a crackdown in Kurdish areas to quell the unrest.
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