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Authorities hang five people in Iran

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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 29 – Iranian authorities hanged five people in the eastern and south-eastern provinces of Khorrasan Jonoubi and Sistan-va-Baluchistan respectively, state media reported on Tuesday. Iran Focus

Tehran, Iran, May 29 – Iranian authorities hanged five people in the eastern and south-eastern provinces of Khorrasan Jonoubi and Sistan-va-Baluchistan respectively, state media reported on Tuesday.

One of the men, identified as S. Gh. (alias: Rahmatollah), was hanged on terrorism charges, the government-run news agency Fars said. He was hanged in a prison in Zahedan, provincial capital of Sistan-va-Baluchistan, on Monday for killing four members of Iran’s State Security Forces and belonging to a “terrorist group”.

Four other men, charged with drug trafficking, were hanged in the town of Birjend, Khorrasan Jonoubi Province, the report said.

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