One man hanged in public in Qom

Sept. 15, 2007, 2:26 p.m.

One man was hanged in the city of Qom

IranHR-Tuesday, September 11: One man was hanged in the city of Qom, Tuesday morning at 6 AM, according to the official Iranian Fars news agency. According to this report, Mohammad Hosein-zadeh Abarjasi was 49 years of age and illiterate. He had been "working" among others as Darvish (sufist) in the cities of Qom, Varamin and Pakdasht. He was convicted of rape. The execution was taken place in public, in the "Nobahar" part of the city of Qom, where he use t live.