Six men accused of a series of five murders to uphold...

Six men accused of a series of five murders to uphold Islamic morality in Iran's south-eastern city of Kerman were sentenced to death, the lawyer of one of the victims said.
"Based on the information that I obtained indirectly, the six accused have been sentenced to death, but the court has not yet officially announced the verdicts," Nematollah Jafar Yazdi said.
The convicted men have also been sentenced to lashings, he added. Iranian media reports identified the men as members of the hard-line Islamic Basij militia who decided "to kill their victims to fight against moral corruption, promote virtue and eliminate vice."
The alleged killers, aged between 19 and 22, reportedly confessed to killing some victims by tying them up and throwing them into swimming pools, while others were stoned to death, the reports said.