Tehran, May 09: Iran on Sunday hanged five members of anti-revolutionary groups, including a woman, who had been convicted of a series of bomb attacks, the official IRNA news agency reported.
The five, including the woman Shirin Alamhouli, were executed in Tehran’s Evin prison, the agency said, quoting a statement from the capital’s prosecution office.
The four others who were hanged were Farzad Kamangar, Ali Heidarian, Farhad Vakili and Mehdi Eslamian.
“They were convicted of carrying out terrorist acts, including bombings of government centres and public properties in several Iranian cities,” the prosecutor’s office said without giving the location of the bombings.
The hangings bring to at least 61 the number of people executed in Iran so far this year, according to a news agency count based on news reports. Last year, at least 270 people were hanged.
Tehran says the death penalty is essential to maintain public security and is applied only after exhaustive judicial proceedings.
—PTI—