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            IRAN. MAN HANGED FOR ADULTERY, DRUG DEALING
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              | Public execution in Iran, March 2, 2006 |   |  April 13, 2006: an Iranian man convicted of a number of crimes including drug dealing, adultery and sexual harassment has been hanged in public in the northern province of Qazvin, the Etemad Melli newspaper said. According to a local judge, the unnamed man was "an obvious example of corruption on earth" who "deserved to be executed". (Sources: Agence France Presse, 13/04/2006)
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