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Iran executes six 'wicked' people in public
Iran has executed six people in public in the northeastern city of Sabzevar, state radio said on Monday, the second report of a public execution in the Islamic Republic in less than a week.
- Agencies
- Published: 22:43 July 14, 2008
Tehran: Iran has executed six people in public in the northeastern city of Sabzevar, state radio said on Monday, the second report of a public execution in the Islamic Republic in less than a week.
Judiciary chief Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi-Shahroudi in January ordered a halt to public executions in Iran unless they had his approval, "based on social necessities."
The radio described the convicts as "wicked" people but did not say what crimes they had been convicted of nor when they were put to death.
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