Amnesty International has learned that despite appeals, five of the men sentenced to death were publicly hanged on 29 September in two separate districts of the capital Tehran. Amir Fakhri, Payam Amini and Majid Qasemi were hanged from cranes in Lavizan, east Tehran and Amir Karbala’i and Farhad Aq-Nariyan were hanged from cranes in Azadi, west Tehran.
