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Article: Iran hangs 'Sunni rebels'.
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- Aljazeera.net
- Article date:
- July 14, 2009
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7/14/2009 1:53:03 PM
Iran has hanged 13 members of a Sunni Muslim armed group known as Jundallah, or Soldiers of God, after they were convicted of carrying out a number of bombings and other attacks in the south of the country.
The executions were carried out on Tuesday in a prison in the city of Zahedan, the capital of Sistan-Baluchestan province, rather than in a public park as had originally been planned, state media said.
"This morning the executions of some members of the Jundallah terrorist group ... were carried out in prison," Ebrahim Hamidi, the provincial judiciary chief, told the semi-official Fars news agency.
There was no ...