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Iran sentences four to death over bootleg alcohol that killed 17

Police dump confiscated beer in Tehran, July 22, 2009. Selling and drinking alcohol has been banned in Iran since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, giving rise to smuggled or bootleg alcohol, some of it adulterated with poisonous methanol. [AFP]

Iran has sentenced four people to death for selling contaminated bootleg alcohol that killed 17 people and sent dozens more to hospitals in June, the judiciary said on Tuesday.

The sale and consumption of alcohol has been banned in Iran since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, giving rise to a huge illicit trade in smuggled or bootleg alcohol, some of it adulterated with poisonous methanol.

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