Three people convicted of rape and sexual assault were executed Thursday (December 22nd) in Shiraz, southern Iran, more than a year after their arrest, judicial authorities said.
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Perpetrators of assaults and rapes on women in Shiraz, who were identified and arrested in October last year, were hanged this morning
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Eleven death sentences linked to protests
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This gang of three people had committed an armed robbery, assaulted and raped several women last year
," said Kazem Moussavi, attorney general of Fars province, quoted by Mizan.
They were sentenced to death in July and their verdicts have been reviewed and upheld by the Supreme Court, according to Mizan.
According to Amnesty International, Iran executes more convicts than any other country except China.
Iranian justice said it had pronounced 11 death sentences in connection with the demonstrations which shook the country since the death on September 16 of the young Iranian Kurd, Mahsa Amini, after her arrest by the vice squad.
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Two first executions have already taken place in the context of the demonstrations.
Majidreza Rahnavard, 23, was hanged in public on December 12.
He had been found guilty of killing two members of the security forces with a knife.
Mohsen Shekari, also 23, had been executed four days earlier.
He had been found guilty of injuring a member of the security forces.
Activists say a dozen other people face charges that carry the death penalty.
