IRAN HANGS BANGLADESHI FOR MURDER

Iran hanged a Bangladeshi convicted of murdering his brother-in-law in the southern port city of Bandar Abbas. The man, only identified as M.M. and who reportedly also abused his wife, was executed for killing Mohammad Momenieh some seven years previously with a stone. His sentence was to have been carried out three years back, but according to Iranian law there needs to be a complaint from either the parents or the children of the victim to execute the prisoner -- not from the wife. As neither was available his sentence was not carried out. After an exhaustive search via the Bangladeshi embassy in Tehran and the Iranian foreign ministry failed, the Iranian judiciary authorities decided anyway to go ahead with the execution, the ISNA news agency reported.