The Kayhan evening newspaper reported that five Iranian...

The Kayhan evening newspaper reported that five Iranian men were hanged, three of them publicly, for a range of offences including murder, rape and armed robbery. The paper said that Kazem Ahmadi, Reza Hamrahi, Mahmud Gozali-Reyhani were publicly hanged on the morning of January 1 in Ahar, in the northwestern Azerbaijan province, after being convicted by a revolutionary court in Tabriz of "waging war on God, corruption on earth, armed robbery, creating public fear and murdering four people." Two other men, identified only as Morteza K. and Vahid A., were hanged in a prison in the northeastern Semnan province for kidnapping and rape, the paper said.