14 April 2017 :
A man convicted of murdering six people in a shooting spree was publicly executed in Iran, according to the Tasnim news agency.
The man had been found guilty by the country’s supreme court of shooting six people with a machine gun in January.
The prisoner, was identified as "Abbas Sahraie", 27. He was arrested 3month ago and sentenced to death in a short judicial process.
He was hanged on a street in the town of Arak in central Iran, the agency reported.
(Sources: Mizan state-run newswebsite and Human Rights in Iran, 13/04/2017)
