24 drug dealers hanged in mass execution

IRAN hanged 24 convicted drug traffickers in a prison last week in one of the country’s biggest mass executions, the Etemad newspaper reported yesterday.

“On Thursday, 24 international drug traffickers were hanged in a prison in Karaj,” deputy Tehran prosecutor, Mahmoud Salarkia, was quoted as saying. “Their execution was approved by the supreme court.”

The report did not identify any of those sent to the gallows in Karaj, a town west of Tehran.