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Iran
Focus
 Tehran, Iran, Jun. 14 – Three men were hanged in the
southern city of Kerman,
the state-run news agency ISNA reported on Wednesday.
The sentences were carried out at dawn on Tuesday. The men were accused of
kidnapping and rape.
Separately, ISNA reported that Iranian authorities hanged two men in the
restive province of Sistan-va-Baluchistan,
south-east Iran.
The pair were identified as Saeed A. and Nasser Sh.
The official news agency IRNA reported earlier that they were hanged in the
city of Zahedan
so that “divine punishment” could be administered and in order to create
“lasting security” in the region, the provincial justice department
announced in a statement.
They were accused of kidnapping and hostage taking.
Iran
has witnessed escalating unrest in recent months in areas populated by Baluchis, who complain of discriminatory and repressive
policies by the theocratic regime.
A Baluchi group opposed to the government of Iran calling itself Jondollah
has claimed responsibility for a string of armed attacks on government
officials including an ambush in March on a government convoy, which left
twenty-two security and provincial officials dead and at least seven,
including the governor of the city of Zahedan, critically wounded.
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