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[Rick Halperin]

January 6



IRAN:

Iranian MP says corruption convicts ‘must be executed in public squares’



The head of an Iranian parliament committee to combat economic corruption, Amir 
Khojasteh, has called for the public execution of those found guilty of 
corruption.

“Thirty one people have been identified as behind Iran’s economic corruption 
and must be executed in public squares,” Khojasteh said, according to local 
news sites.

“The death penalty has been handed out to four of them and the rest must also 
receive the same punishment,” Khojasteh said, not naming those who have been 
accused or convicted of corruption.

In recent months, Iran has executed three people found guilty of economic 
corruption.

One of the executed men was Vahid Mazloumin, dubbed the “sultan of coins” by 
media, a trader accused of manipulating the currency market, according to 
Mizan, the news site of the Iranian judiciary.

Mazloumin was allegedly caught with 2 tons of gold coins, according to the 
Iranian Students’ News Agency (ISNA).

The second man was part of Mazloumin’s network and had been involved in the 
sale of gold coins, Mizan reported.

Both of them were convicted of “spreading corruption on earth”, a capital 
offence under Iran’s Islamic laws.

Legal analysts have pointed out that the Islamic Republic of Iran's penal code 
does not include the death penalty for those convicted of economic corruption, 
but that Iranian authorities are using it to control the diving currency market 
in Iran.

Observers also believe the aim of these executions is to silence labor protests 
and repeated factional strikes.

(source: alarlabiya.net)








SOMALIA:

Somali troops executed 6 militants in Gedo region

Colonel Guhad Mohamud Moalim Omar known as [Tima-Jilac], one of the Somali 
security officials in Bardere town said several Al-Shabaab members were 
executed on Monday.

He added that the city’s military court sentenced 6 militants to death and then 
publicly executed on Monday after SNA commander General Indha Qarshe ordered.

Somali security forces have carried out a series of anti-Al-Shabaab operations 
in Gedo region over the past few weeks in an attempt to improve the security 
after a string of attacks.

The execution of the 6 militants came after Al Shabaab killed 2 top Somali 
military commanders in a bomb attack outside Somali capital, Mogadishu last 
month.

(source: radioshabelle.com)