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  • Insurgents hanged in jail

    07/14/2009 11:52:46 PM PDT · by myknowledge · 10 replies · 481+ views
    The Daily Telegraph ^ | July 14, 2009 | Correspondents in Tehran
    IRAN hanged some members of a Sunni rebel group in a volatile southeastern area today, but they were put to death in prison and not in public as initially planned, the semi-official Fars News Agency said. Fars had reported yesterday that 14 members of Jundollah (God's soldiers) would be executed in a park in the city of Zahedan, including the brother of its leader Abdolmalek Rigi. But Ebrahim Hamidi, who heads the judiciary in Sistan-Baluchestan province, said today the executions took place in a jail instead and that Rigi's brother would be put to death later in the week. He...