Iran Focus: Tehran, May 02 – A man accused of murdering a
taxi driver was hanged in Karoon Prison in the southern Iranian city of Ahwaz on Monday morning, according to the state-run news agency. The man, only identified as Yaqoub R., was executed in the city which has been the scene of mass social unrest and clashes between anti-government protesters and State Security Forces. Iran Focus
Tehran, May 02 – A man accused of murdering a taxi driver was hanged in Karoon Prison in the southern Iranian city of Ahwaz on Monday morning, according to the state-run news agency.
The man, only identified as Yaqoub R., was executed in the city which has been the scene of mass social unrest and clashes between anti-government protesters and State Security Forces.
A report by the Ministry of Intelligence and Security and the local judiciary claimed that Yaqoub had stabbed to death a taxi driver who was trying to prevent his car from being stolen.
Irans Revolutionary Guards also executed a number of teenage demonstrators in the streets of Ahwaz tens days ago, according to eye-witnesses.
