IRAN HANGS TWO FOR MURDER, ONE IN PUBLIC

Iran publicly hanged former police official Abolfazl R in the central city of Arak for stabbing a man to death and raping his fiancée in the mountains outside Arak in December 2005, the report said. “He had approached the couple as a police official, showed a fake document, tied up the victim and killed him by stabbing and striking his head with a rock.” In the second case, a man identified as Abolfazl M. was hanged in a prison in Arak for the murder of two people.