The death sentence for two people convicted of kidnapping and rape was carried out in public on Tuesday morning in the town of Rostam in the Fars Province.
According to reports, the convicts who were identified as Samer R. and Hossein M. carried out a kidnapping and rape in May of this year and after their arrest, they were sentenced to death in the 6th branch of the Penal Court in the town of Kazroun in the fastest possible time…
After their death sentences were upheld in the 9th branch of the Supreme Court, the agreement of the head of the Judiciary and after their requests for amnesty were turned down by the Judiciary Amnesty Commission, these two [men] were hanged in public with the presence of judiciary and security officials and a large number of people from the town of Rostam.
Rostam is located in the west of Fars Province, 160 kilometers from Shiraz. (ISNA state-run News Agency – Dec. 13, 2011) Translation by Freedom Messenger
