IRAN: FIVE PRISONERS EXECUTED FOR RAPE, MURDER

September 12, 2013: The news agency Boyernews reported that four men were arrested convicted of a rape and three of them were hanged in public in Iran. The four prisoners were identified as "S. S.", "H. Kh.", "B. H." and "H. A.". The report didn’t mention anything about the fate of the fourth person. The prisoners were hanged in front of hundreds of people at the Shiroodi Square of Dehdasht, by being pulled up by a crane.
On September 12 an inmate was executed in Darab (city in Fars Province), charged with murder. According to Fars Province’s judiciary report, this victim was hanged publically.
A prisoner was hanged on September 9 in Rajai Shahr prison, on charge of raping.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) Reza Soleimani was imprisoned in the ward 2 of Rajai Shahr prison.
This execution has not been reported by the official Iranian sources yet. (Sources: HRANA News Agency, 09/09/2013; Iran Human Rights, 12/09/2013; Radio Zamane, 12/09/2013)