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Iran hangs ‘elite student’ on espionage charges: NGOs
Key takeaways
- Erfan Shakourzadeh, 29, was hanged after being convicted for collaborating with the CIA and Mossad, the Iranian judiciary’s Mizan Online website said.
- Describing him as an “elite student”, IHR said he was held “in solitary confinement and subjected to torture and forced to give false confessions”.
- He is the fifth person to be executed on espionage charges since the beginning of the war in late February.
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Add ARY News on Google AAResize PARIS: Iranian authorities on Monday hanged a post-graduate student from an elite Tehran university on charges of espionage, the latest in a spate of executions against the backdrop of the United States and Israel’s war against Iran.
Erfan Shakourzadeh, 29, was hanged after being convicted for collaborating with the CIA and Mossad, the Iranian judiciary’s Mizan Online website said.
Norway-based rights groups Iran Human Rights and Hengaw said that Shakourzadeh was a student at Tehran’s prestigious Iran University of Science and Technology and had written a message before his execution rejecting the charges as fabricated.
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