Iran hangs convicted drug trafficker (AFP)

TEHRAN (AFP)-Iran has convicted drug traffickers hanged in prison in the southwestern city of Ahvaz ISNA news agency reported Saturday.

He was found to have No details of the Amer h. was given.

The latest hanging brings the number of executions reported in Iran so far, 131 in 2011, according to the United States Census Bureau, the media and official reports are based on the amount of the AFP.

The Iranian media reported 179 hangings last year. But international human rights say the actual number was much higher, allowing the second of the Islamic Republic of China, it's the only place the number of people to death.

Iran says the death penalty, it is necessary to maintain law and order, and that it shall apply only after an exhaustive proceedings.

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Iran hangs convicts 4 (AP)

TEHRAN, Iran-Iranian hanged three convicted of killing two of the Guantánamo detention facility inmates, all policemen, aseelliseen, and the kidnapping and the fourth person convicted of a series of killings by the news agency reported.

Quoted the semi-official Mehr News Agency, the southern city of Jaber Banshi, Shiraz, as saying the three were hanged on Saturday the head of the Prosecutor, after it was convicted of the same charges.

They were hanged from cranes in the public street, covered with black masks with eyes and their hands bound behind their backs. Were led to their deaths with the infantry armed with their faces hidden by balaclavas, the black Holmes with machine guns.

Serial killer convicted of the killing of eight people were hanged in a nearby County.

Murder, rape, armed robbery, kidnapping and drug trafficking are punishable offences in Iran the death penalty.

International rights groups have criticized the increasing pace of Iran, Burma, which often is carried out in public.

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