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March 15, 1990
Iraqi authorities hanged Iranian freelance reporter Farzad Bazoft on charges of spying for Israel.
Farzad Bazoft
Farzad Bazoft was an Iranian journalist who settled in the United Kingdom in the mid-1970s. He worked as a freelance reporter for The Observer. He was arrested by Iraqi authorities and executed in 1990 after being convicted of spying for Israel while working in Iraq.