IRAN: MAN WHO KILLED SIX IN SHOOTING SPREE PUBLICLY HANGED IN ARAK
April 13, 2017: A man convicted of murdering six people in a shooting spree was publicly executed in Iran, according to the Tasnim news agency. The man had been found guilty by the country’s supreme court of shooting six people with a machine gun in January. The prisoner, was identified as "Abbas Sahraie", 27. He was arrested 3month ago and sentenced to death in a short judicial process. He was hanged on a street in the town of Arak in central Iran, the agency reported. (Sources: Mizan state-run newswebsite and Human Rights in Iran, 13/04/2017)
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