A man was hanged in public in the city of Qazvin, west of Tehran, early this morning. According to the official Iranian news agencies the man who was identified as “Mehdi Faraji” (37) was hanged in public, in the beginning of Qazvin’s “Isfahan street” early this morning.
Mehdi Faraji was convicted of murdering five women between May 2009 and March 2010.
This is the eighth public hanging that has taken in May 2011 in Iran