Friends of the convicts in the crowd at Karbalaei's hanging detonated home-made grenades, temporarily causing panic but resulting in no injuries.
Source/Credit: Mail Online | UK
By Mail Online | October 2, 2013
Five men convicted of abducting, raping and robbing women were taken to the Tehran neighbourhoods they had terrorised today - and hanged in public.
Payam Amini, one convicted member of the gang dubbed the "black vultures" by police - asked for forgiveness.
"True, we are guilty but we didn't kill anybody. We do not deserve to die, but I want everybody to forgive me," he told reporters before the tow truck crane from which he dangled rose with a hydraulic hiss.
As he neared death another man, Amir Karbalaei, shouted his innocence to the huge crowd that had been gathering since dawn to see him hang.
Amir Fakhri and Farhad Aqnarian were hanged at a bus terminal in western Tehran.
Karbalaei, Majid Qasemi and Amini were hanged in north-eastern Lavizan district.
The five, all in their early 20s, were arrested in December 2001. Officials have not said how many women were attacked.
Friends of the convicts in the crowd at Karbalaei's hanging detonated home-made grenades, temporarily causing panic but resulting in no injuries.
Some people watched the hangings with their family from rooftops and others nibbled potato crisps as riot police circled.
The bodies were left hanging for at least half an hour.
The mother of one gang member fainted twice as she watched him hang and cried out that though he was guilty, it was unjust to execute him.
There had been no public announcement of the verdicts.
Iran's Supreme Court upheld a lower court's sentence last week.
"Public executions reduce occurrence of offences. Rape is punished by death in our laws. The presence of so many people (to watch the hangings) also proves that they want divine verdicts enforced," Judge Mohammad Erfan said before confirming the hangings today.
Convicts are hanged in public in Iran only if a court deems that their offences injured public sentiments. Iranian courts are controlled by hard-line proponents of Islamic law.
Iranian reformists say public executions hurt the country's international image and reflect badly on Islam.
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