IRAN: MAN HANGED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING

Iran has hanged a man convicted of drug trafficking in a prison in the northern city of Sari, the government's Iran newspaper reported. The unidentified man was arrested in summer 2007 with two other men for possession of about 32 kilogrammes (70 pounds) of crack cocaine in the northern Mazandaran province. One of the accomplices was executed in March and the other sentenced to life in prison, the report said.