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Iran executes five people over drug trafficking

Iranian authorities executed five people over "armed drug smuggling" on May 15, 2023. [VOA]

Iranian authorities on Monday executed five people over "armed drug smuggling" in the south of the country, the judiciary reported.

The convicts, "all criminals and armed drug smugglers," had been sentenced to death by hanging in a verdict upheld by Iran's top court, the judiciary's website Mizan Online quoted Mojtaba Ghahramani, Chief Justice of the southern province of Hormozgan, as saying.

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