One woman was hanged in the prison of Qazvin, west of Tehran

Iran Human Rights, July 22: One woman was hanged in the prison of Qazvin, west of Tehran, according to the Iranian daily Etemaad-e-melli. The woman who was not identified by name was convicted of murdering her father in law, but due to her econimic situation she couldn’t afford a lawyer to prove that she didn’t kill him delibrately, according to the report.

According to the Human rights activists news agency, she had been in the prison for four years and was hanged on Tuesday July 15.