Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Feb. 09 – Authorities hanged three men in western Iran, state media reported on Monday.
Iran Focus
Tehran, Iran, Feb. 09 – Authorities hanged three men in western Iran, state media reported on Monday.
The men were identified as Nasser Ahmadi, Saeed Janati and Farzad Janati.
The state-run daily Jomhouri Islami wrote that they were hanged on Thursday in the city of Kermanshah.
They were accused of murder.
At least 59 people were executed in Iran in January.
Iran's judiciary spokesman Ali Reza Jamshidi confirmed on 13 January that two men had been stoned to death for adultery in Mashhad in December while a third man managed to struggle out of the hole he had been buried in.
