Five drug traffickers hanged in Iran
May 11th, 2011 - 4:45 am ICT by IANSTeheran, May 11 (IANS/AKI) Authorities in Iran have hanged five convicted drug-traffickers in the country’s northwest area, a media report here said.
The hanging was carried out immediately after the convicts were awarded death sentence by a court in Orumieh,the capital of West Azerbaijan Province.
They were hanged in the main prison of Orumieh in Iran’s northwest, Iranpressnews reported Tuesday.
Esfandiar Mandahki, Teimur Aiubian, Aref Rashid-pour and two other unnamed men bring to 300 the number of people hanged in Iran over the past nine months.
Since the 1979 Iranian Revolution, drug trafficking is among a series of crimes punishable with the death penalty in the country.
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