The Iranian government on Tuesday (19/07/2011), hung in public three men convicted of raping in the city of Kermanshah in the west of the country, ISNA news agency reported.
According to the ISNA report, the three men had also recorded the victim when they were raped with the aim of the film will be used to blackmail them.
People who witnessed the executions are chanted slogans praising the judicial office because such criminals sentenced to death, ISNA said on Tuesday (07/19/2011).
According to the calculation of the French news agency AFP, execution is make the number of people executed in Iran so far this year to 164.
Iranian media reported hanged 179 years ago, but human rights groups said the number is actually much more so that the Islamic Republic is in second position after China in the number of people sentenced to death.
Tehran says capital punishment is important to maintain law and order, and only carried out after an exhaustive judicial process.
Murder, rape, armed robbery, drug smuggling, and adultery is included in the perpetrators of crimes punishable by death in Iran.
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