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NEWS ARCHIVE·DEATH PENALTY·OCTOBER 27, 2002
Iran

Two Iranian men convicted of murder were hanged publicly...

Two Iranian men convicted of murder were hanged publicly in Tehran at dawn, one of them in a park better known as a spot for dining out or hiking, witnesses said

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Two Iranian men convicted of murder were hanged publicly in Tehran at dawn, one of them in a park better known as a spot for dining out or hiking, witnesses said.
Hashem Anwarniah, 23, was strung up by a crane in wealthy north Tehran's Jamshideh park, the site of where he gunned down a police officer, Malek Hossein Amiri, during a shoot-out two months previously, AFP reported.
In Javideh district in the poorer south of the city, 32-year-old Farhad Rahmanpour was hanged for the murder and robbery of his aunt and her two children.
The Iranian news agency, IRNA, said Rahmanpour, a drug addict, killed his uncle's wife, Farahnaz, and her eight-year-old son Sina and newly-born daughter, Sepehr, to escape the scene when he was stealing the family's jewellery and cash.
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  • (Sources: AFP, Iranmania; SMCCDI website, IRNA web site 27/20/2002)