IRAN. MAN HANGED IN PUBLIC FOR RAPE, MINOR REPRIEVED

Mousa Ali Mohammadik, an Iranian convicted of raping and abducting more than 40 schoolgirls, was hanged in public but his accomplice teenage son was reprieved. Mousa, 40, was hanged in a central square in Isfahan in an execution watched by 5,000 cheering people, the conservative daily Kayhan reported in its afternoon issue.
His son Rasoul, who was reportedly between 16 and 17, escaped execution because of "ambiguities" about his age, according to local judicial officials quoted in the press. Both were convicted of raping and stealing gold and jewellery from schoolgirls aged 11 to 17.