IRAN: FIVE MEN HANGED IN PUBLIC

Iran hanged in public five men convicted of murder, rape, armed robbery and kidnapping, the official IRNA news agency reported.
The report said "serial killer" Mehdi Faraji (37), convicted of murdering five middle-aged women who boarded his minibus, was hanged in public in the city of Qazvin.
He was executed in the beginning of Qazvin’s "Isfahan street" early in the morning.
According to the report a young boy (minor) was used to draw the chair Mehdi was standing on and carry out the execution.
IRNA said that two men, Hamid Ranjbar and Hamid Reza Baqeri, were hanged in public after they were convicted of armed robbery and abduction.
The two were executed at the "Kozegari" square of Shiraz.
Two more men, Masoud Dehqan and Mehdi Alipour, were hanged in public in the Golestan area of Shiraz, after being found guilty of rape.