Map of Iran with Mazandaran highlighted

IRAN HANGS MAN CONVICTED OF MURDER

January 10, 2007: an Iranian man convicted of murdering a police officer was hanged in the northern town of Tonekabon, Mazandaran province, a press report said. The man identified as Mehdi Susan-Bahari had stabbed an officer to death in 2005, Kayhan newspaper said.
The report did not say when the execution was carried out or whether he was hanged in public. (Sources: AFP, 10/01/2007)