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When time comes those who helped criminals to kill more should face world tribunal.
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August 2006 executions Tehran, Iran, Aug. 16 Three men were hanged in south-east Iran, according to a semi-official daily. The men were identified as Abdol-Malik Faghirdadi, Shirdel Shahiki-Rad, and Hamid-Reza Thaber, the hard-line daily Jomhouri Islami reported on Tuesday. The report said that the hangings took place in public in the city of Zabol and in a prison in the city of Zahedan. It did not say where each of the men had been hanged. The men were convicted of drug smuggling and “trouble-making”. Authorities routinely refer to anti-government activists as trouble-makers. TEHRAN, Aug 19 (AFP) An Iranian man convicted of murdering his wife was hanged in the northern town of Sari, an Iranian newspaper reported on Saturday. The man, identified as Valiolah Gh., was sentenced to death for the premeditated killing of his wife, Mahpari, Keyhan newspaper said without giving more details. The hanging brings to at least 87 the number of people executed in Iran so far in 2006, according to an AFP tally based on press and witness reports. Amnesty International, which campaigns against the death penalty worldwide, has said there were 94 executions in Iran in 2005. Capital offences in the Islamic republic include murder, rape, armed robbery, apostasy, blasphemy, serious drug trafficking, repeated sodomy, adultery or prostitution, treason and espionage. Tehran, Iran, Aug. 20 A young man hung in public in the western Iranian city of Khorramabad on Sunday, the official news agency IRNA reported. The man, identified as 35-year-old Karim B., was accused of drug smuggling. On Saturday, the semi-official daily Kayhan reported that a man charged with murder, identified as Valiollah Gh., was hanged in the northern town of Sari. Tehran, Iran, Aug. 24 Iranian authorities hung a man in public in the south-eastern Iranian town of Khash, Sistan-va-Baluchistan Province, the official news agency IRNA reported on Thursday. The man was identified as Amir-Hamzeh Eidouzehi. He was charged with repeated armed robbery and rape, the report said. Sistan-va-Baluchistan Province is home to Baluchis, a predominantly Sunni Muslim ethnic minority. Iran has witnessed escalating unrest since 2006 in areas populated by Baluchis, who complain of discriminatory and repressive policies by the theocratic regime. In recent months, Iranian authorities have stepped up executions in the restive province in what many Baluchis believe is a response to a spate of attacks by dissidents on government and security officials. Tehran, Iran, Aug. 27 A man was hanged in public on Saturday in the
south-eastern province of Sistan-va-Baluchestan, the official news agency
IRNA reported.
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