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Iran Focus
 Tehran, Iran, Aug. 14 – An Iranian man was hanged on Sunday morning
in front of a crowd at a public square in the city of Arak,
central Iran.
The man, identified by his first name Mehdi, was
21 years old at the time of his arrest on homicide charges. Another
prisoner, identified by his first name Yaghoub,
will be hanged in public in Arak in the coming days, according
to the government-owned news agency Fars.
Mehdi was originally sentenced to flogging, jail
time, and execution, and his sentence was upheld by the clergy-dominated
Supreme Court.
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