IRAN. THREE CONVICTED MURDERERS PUBLICLY HANGED

it was reported that three Iranian men convicted of raping and murdering a young boy were publicly hanged in Susangerd, a town in the southwestern Iranian province of Khuzestan. The three men, identified as Nasser Ch., 19, Arref S. and Ali S., had been found guilty of abducting, raping and murdering a six-year-old boy in February 2002.