IRAN HANGS MAN FOR SERIAL RAPES

05 May 2009 :

Iran hanged a man convicted of rape in a prison in the central city of Isfahan, the state-run television website reported. According to the report the man, identified as Bijan, 40, was sent to the gallows for raping 10 boys some two years ago.
 
(Sources: Independent Online, 30/04/2009)

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