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5 more people hanged in Iran after U.N. warns of frighteningly high number of executions

Por: CBS News World May 15, 2023

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Iranian authorities on Monday executed five people over armed drug smuggling in the south of the country, the judiciary reported.The convicts, all criminals and armed drug smugglers, had been sentenced to death by hanging in a verdict upheld by Iran's top court, the judiciary's website Mizan Online quoted Mojtaba Ghahramani, Chief Justice of the southern province of Hormozgan, as saying.The sentences of the aforementioned were carried... + full article



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