
Iran hangs three convicted rapists who were sentenced to death in July
FirstpostIran was second only to China in the number of executions it carried out last year, putting to death 314 people, according to human rights group Amnesty International Tehran: Iran executed three convicted rapists in the southern city of Shiraz on Thursday, the judiciary said. “The perpetrators of assault and rape on women in Shiraz, who were identified and arrested in October last year, were hanged this morning,” the judiciary’s Mizan Online news website reported. “This gang of three carried out armed robberies and assaulted and raped a number of women last year,” Mizan quoted Fars province prosecutor Kazem Mousavi as saying. Iran was second only to China in the number of executions it carried out last year, putting to death 314 people, according to human rights group Amnesty International.
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