23 June 2006 :
press reports said that two men convicted on charges including murder, organised crime and assault were hanged in public in Iran.A man identified as Mohammad, 28, was hanged in Isfahan, central Iran, on the morning of June 21 for shooting a bank manager during a robbery. The Etemad-Melli paper said 3,000 people turned out to watch.
The second man, identified only as Ahmad, was hanged in the northern city of Qazvin for "leading a criminal gang, extortion, sexual harrassment, drug trafficking, fighting and illegitimate relationships", the report said.
(Sources: Agence France Presse, 22/06/2006)