| Iran has hanged 20 drug
traffickers, just days after
putting to death 12 other
convicted criminals. The IRNA
news agency said the
traffickers were executed in a
prison in the city of Karaj,
west of Tehran, after being
convicted for buying, selling
and possessing various drugs.
A total of 700 kilogrammes of
heroin, cocaine and opium had
been seized from the
condemned, who were between 35
and 48 years old. |