Contemporary Issues, 2nd prize
Hanging in Iran
Ebrahim Noroozi
Jamejam Online
Jamejam Online
12 October, 2011
Abbas (24), Rajab Ali (23), Asghar (20), and Mansour (25) were convicted for forming part of a group of more than a dozen men, who invaded a private party in Khomeinishahr, tied up male guests or locked them in rooms, and raped a number of the women.
Ebrahim Noroozi
Ebrahim Noroozi was born in 1980 in Tehran, Iran. He began working as a professional photographer in 2004, with Fars News Agency. His photographs have appeared nationally and in...
Khomeinishahr, Iran
Abbas (24), Rajab Ali (23), Asghar (20), and Mansour (25) were convicted for forming part of a group of more than a dozen men, who invaded a private party in Khomeinishahr, tied up male guests or locked them in rooms, and raped a number of the women. Public executions in Iran are usually conducted as punishment for murder or rape, though lesser crimes, such as fraud, can also incur a death sentence. Iran is alleged to have the second-highest execution rate in the world after China, but supplies no official figures for hangings.
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