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Iran hangs three convicted rapists: media

(Agencies)
Updated: 2010-01-04 20:16
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TEHRAN: Iran hanged three convicted rapists inside a prison on Monday, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.

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"They raped 12 women and killed seven of them in the suburb area of Tehran," Fars quoted judiciary official Fakhreddin Jafarzade as saying.

Drug trafficking, murder, rape, adultery, armed rubbery and apostasy are punishable by death under Iran's Islamic sharia law, implemented since the country's 1979 Islamic revolution.

They were hanged after the Supreme Court upheld the verdicts.

Iran is often accused of abuses by rights groups and western governments, but Tehran dismisses the criticism and accuses the west of double standards and hypocrisy.
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