IRAN. CHILD RAPIST HANGED IN PUBLIC

27 February 2007 :

a young man convicted of child rape was publicly hanged in Iran's central clerical capital of Qom, the Jomhouri Eslami newspaper reported.
Mohammad Sadeghi, 26, was sentenced to eight years in jail for kidnapping as well as receiving the death sentence for rape.

(Sources: AFP, 27/02/2007)

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