IRAN HANGS 3 FOR RAPE IN LATEST PUBLIC EXECUTION
August 19, 2007: Iran hanged three men in public for raping a woman, the official media reported. Mahmoud Moghimi, Mohammad Sharei and Davoud Sharei were put to death in the town of Saveh, southwest of the capital Tehran, the IRNA news agency said. "The sentence was carried out after being endorsed by the Supreme Court," Saveh public prosecutor Reza Shah-Karami said. (Sources: Reuters, 19/08/2007; http://www.richard.clark32.btinternet.co.uk/contents.html)
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