IRAN. FIVE EXECUTED FOR MURDER, DRUG SMUGGLING

Iranian spectators watch a hanging in Mashhad. 2005

18 May 2007 :

Three people convicted of murder and two others found guilty of drug smuggling were hanged in Iran, AFP reported.  
The convicted murderers, named as Mohammad Safar, Alireza and Behzad, were executed on Wednesday in Tehran's Evin prison, the newspaper Tehran Emrouz reported on Thursday. Smugglers Abdolrahman and Parviz were executed in the southern cities of Bandar Abbas and Bandar Khamir.
 

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