IRAN. 2 EXECUTED IN PUBLIC FOR MURDER
January 9, 2008: Two men, identified as as Mojtaba Roozgar (age not given) and Mohammad Hossein Roozgar, 24, were hanged in Iran for two separate murders, the Iran newspaper reported. They were executed in public in the Chamran square of the city of Jahrom.
Mojtaba, described as the head of a criminal gang, had killed two private taxi drivers, identified only as Gholam-Reza and Majid, after taking rides in the outskirts of the city as passengers with four other members of his gang. The second man had killed the 18-year-old Jamal in a street fight, the newspaper said. (Sources: Afp, 10/01/2008; Iran Human Rights, 10/01/2008)
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