IRAN: 3 MEN CONVICTED OF KILLING PROSECUTOR HANGED

April 26, 2014: three men convicted of killing an Iranian prosecutor were executed publicly in Zabol, IRNA reported. Omid Piri, Alireza Dahmardeh and Iman Galavi were hanged in front of the family of the victim and residents of the town in southeastern Iran. The executions took place at the same spot the men shot to death prosecutor Mousa Nouri in November 2013. The prosecutor had been considered one of the toughest lawmen fighting against opium and other drug smuggling networks that use routes leading from Pakistan and Afghanistan over Iran's rugged hills and deserts. (Sources: AP, 26/04/2014)