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Iran hangs five terrorists
TEHRAN, May 10 (MNA) -- Iran executed five people convicted of being counter-revolutionary terrorists on Sunday.
The Tehran Prosecutor’s Office issued a statement on Sunday saying that Farzad Kamangar, Ali Heidarian, Farhad Vakili, Mehdi Islamian, and Shirin Alamhouli had been executed.
The five were convicted of carrying out terrorist acts, including bombings of government offices and public property in several Iranian cities, blowing up a section of a gas pipeline to Turkey, and weapons smuggling. Each of them was also convicted of being a mohareb, which means an enemy of God, a crime punishable by death in Iran.
The convicts were hanged at Tehran’s Evin Prison on Sunday after the Supreme Court upheld their death sentences. The five terrorists had been convicted in 2008.
According to the statement, Kamangar, Heidarian, Vakili, and Alamhouli were members of the counter-revolutionary group PJAK (the Party for a Free Life in Kurdistan), which operates in western Iran.
Kamangar, Heidarian, and Vakili helped establish the PJAK group in 2003 in an effort to overthrow the Islamic establishment.
Alamhouli confessed that she had links with PJAK and received orders from the group to carry out terrorist acts in Iran.
A representative of the Tehran Prosecutor’s Office and the convicts’ lawyers attended all the court sessions.
The Tehran Prosecutor’s Office issued a statement on Sunday saying that Farzad Kamangar, Ali Heidarian, Farhad Vakili, Mehdi Islamian, and Shirin Alamhouli had been executed.
The five were convicted of carrying out terrorist acts, including bombings of government offices and public property in several Iranian cities, blowing up a section of a gas pipeline to Turkey, and weapons smuggling. Each of them was also convicted of being a mohareb, which means an enemy of God, a crime punishable by death in Iran.
The convicts were hanged at Tehran’s Evin Prison on Sunday after the Supreme Court upheld their death sentences. The five terrorists had been convicted in 2008.
According to the statement, Kamangar, Heidarian, Vakili, and Alamhouli were members of the counter-revolutionary group PJAK (the Party for a Free Life in Kurdistan), which operates in western Iran.
Kamangar, Heidarian, and Vakili helped establish the PJAK group in 2003 in an effort to overthrow the Islamic establishment.
Alamhouli confessed that she had links with PJAK and received orders from the group to carry out terrorist acts in Iran.
A representative of the Tehran Prosecutor’s Office and the convicts’ lawyers attended all the court sessions.
