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Another Horror Show in Iran: Four Public Executions This Morning

8 Mar 14
Another Horror Show in Iran: Four Public Executions This Morning

The execution wave continues in Iran. In another show of horror, four prisoners were hanged in one of the streets of Bandar Abbas (Southern Iran) early this morning. More than 160 people have been executed since the beginning of 2014. Iran Human Rights, March 8, 2014: Four men were hanged in the "Shahnaz Street" of Bandar Abbas, early this morning Saturday 8. March, reported the Iranian state media. According to the official Iranian news agency IRNA, the four men were identified as "Moslem A", "Mohammad Hossein F.", "Abdolreza F.

" and "Hamzeh T." . The first three men were convicted of rape while the forth man was convicted of murder and sentenced to retribution (qisas), said the report. In average two people have been executed every day since the beginning of 2014.