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Iranian authorities on Wednesday hanged a man in his early 30s convicted of spying for Israel, the sixth person to be executed on such charges since the start of the US-Israeli war against the Islamic Republic.The Iranian judiciary’s Mizan Online website described Ehsan Afreshteh, 32, as “a spy trained by Mossad in Nepal who sold sensitive information to Israel.”For all the latest headlines, follow our Google News channel online or via the app.But the Norway-based Hengaw and Iran Human Rights (IHR) NGOs said in separate statements that Afreshteh had denied he shared top secret documents with Israeli intelligence and said he had been subjected to televised “forced confessions” obtained through torture.A specialist in cybersecurity, Afreshteh had insisted that all he had done was to “warn independent websites about cyberattacks,” Hengaw said.The rights groups said he had been living in Turkey but had received assurances from Iranian authorities that he could return home safely.He was
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