Irán abole la pena capital por tráfico de drogas

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Irán abole la pena capital por tráfico de drogas

25 mayo 2017

Irán ha abolido la pena de muerte que hasta ahora imponía a personas que comerciaban con estupefacientes, los distribuían o traficaban con ellos, y la ha sustituido por la cadena perpetua. Más información, en inglés, está disponible abajo.

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By Kamila Aliyeva

Iran's Parliament has abolished the death penalty for dealers, distributors and traffickers of narcotic drugs, replacing this punishment with lifelong imprisonment.

Representative of the Judicial Commission of the Parliament (Majlis) of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Hassan Nourozi announced about this while talking to journalists on April 23.

Under the changes, the death penalty for non-band drug traffickers and smugglers who were unarmed and had no previous execution or life imprisonment convictions will be converted to 25 to 30 years of imprisonment.

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