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IRAN HANGS 10 CONVICTED DRUG TRAFFICKERS
November 7, 2012: Iran executed 10 drug traffickers in a prison in Tehran, a statement on the website of the prosecutor's office said.
The men sent to the gallows were convicted of trafficking "hundreds of kilos" (pounds) of narcotics, the statement said.
In Iran, around two million people, out of a population of 75 million, are drug addicts, 400,000 of them heroin users, according to official estimates.
Some 3,656 deaths related to drug use were recorded during the last Iranian year (March 2011 to March 2012), according to official figures from the health ministry. (Sources: AFP, 07/11/2012)
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