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Four people hanged in Iran on drug related charges

Society Materials 20 October 2014 11:57 (UTC +04:00)
Four men were hanged in Iran’s northern Rasht city on Oct. 19, due to drug related charges, the official IRIB news agency reported.
Four people hanged in Iran on drug related charges

Baku, Azerbaijan, Oct. 20

By Umid Niayesh - Trend:

Four men were hanged in Iran's northern Rasht city on Oct. 19, due to drug related charges, the official IRIB news agency reported.

One of the hanged men was previously arrested for heroin possession, while another 46-year old man was arrested and charged for carrying and selling opium.

The other two hanged men were hanged upon charges for buying methamphetamine and heroin.

Drug trafficking as well as murder, rape and armed robbery are among the crimes that are punishable by death in Iran.

Iran ranks second, after China, in terms of the number of executions in the world.

At least 852 people were executed in Iran from July 2013 to June 2014, according to the latest report of the UN special rapporteur on human rights in Iran, Ahmed Shaheed.

Iran exists on a major drug route between Afghanistan and Europe, as well as the Persian Gulf states. The Islamic Republic shares about 900 kilometers of a common border with Afghanistan, through which about 74 percent of opium is smuggled.

According to official estimates, fight against drugs annually cost Iran about $1 billion. The statistics also say that there are about 2 million of drug users in Iran.

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