IRAN: SEVEN AFGHAN IMMIGRANTS EXECUTED

Iranian authorities executed seven Afghan refugees, their relatives in western Herat province, Afghanistan, claimed. The families asked the provincial government to help return the bodies of their relatives to their country of origin.
Shir Gul, 40, said Iranian officials in a jail known as Taibad called him and said his nephew was hanged on charges of drug-trafficking.
Gul's nephew, Mohammad Shafai, 21, phoned his family to say his last words and that his execution order had been passed by an Iranian court.
Another resident of the western Afghan province, bordering Iran, Haji Ghulam Jelani, claimed that his brother, charged for similar drug-trade offences, was executed in the same prison and was buried somewhere in Iran.
The Iranian authorities executed seven Afghan immigrants early in the morning, Jelani quoted other Afghan prisoners in the jail as saying.
The Iranian government has not provided the Afghan government with details about the execution of its citizens, the provincial governor's spokesman told Pajhwok Afghan News.