Saturday, May 30, 2009

Three Men Hanged in Iran for Mosque bombing

By: Rachel Polster

On Saturday three men who were involved in a bombing of a mosque in Zahedan were hanged. The explosion occurred two days earlier that killed at least 20 and injured over 125 people. A judiciary spokesman told the state-fun news agency that the men, Haji Noti Zehi, Gholam Rasoul Shai Zehi, and Zabilhollah Naroubi had smuggled the explosives in the country. The three men were hanged in public right before the funerals of the people that were killed. They were charged with waging war (against God), corruption on earth and activities against the state. They had confessed to their crime and had also been connected to past bombings and hostage taking incidents.

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