(Tehran, Iran) - Tehran's chief prosecutor Saiid Mortazavi has announced that the execution by hanging of 17 "socially dangerous" people "is imminent". His announcement comes after Sunday's mass hangings of 12 people. The authorities have also published the names of those executed and informed the families of the 17 others on death row. It is not known whether among those hangedwere five people arrested on charges of having homosexual relations. On the list of those due to be punished with the death penalty in the coming days, or maybe hours, are several individuals arrested for political reasons.
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