A man is scheduled to be hanged in public in Ghazvin on Thursday May 26th

Iran Human Rights, May 24: A men is scheduled to be hanged in public in the city of Ghazvin, west of Tehran.

According to the state run Borna news agency, a man identified as Mehdi (37), is scheduled to be hanged on the Isfahan-Iran Gaz Street in Ghazvin, Thursday morning. The public hanging is going to take place at 7 AM, said the report.

The man is convicted of murdering five women and stealing their jewelry in Ghazvin between May 2009 and March 2010.

According to this report, Mehdi was sentenced to five times retribution (hanging), imprisonment and flogging in August/September 2010. The sentence was later approved by the Supreme Court.