26 April 2006 :
a “young man” was hanged in public in the central city of Isfahan charged with killing a local police commander.The police commander, identified as Akbar Bayati, was shot and killed during a gun battle with four men outside a police station in August 2004, the daily Hamshahri wrote.
The four men had first attacked a soldier outside the building, the report said.
The group’s ringleader, identified only as Mehdi B., was sentenced by Judge Seyyed Jaafar Hashemi to hang in public.
(Sources: Iran focus, 24/04/2006)
