Iran on Tuesday executed three men who had been found guilty of raping women after tricking them into visiting a phoney cosmetic surgery clinic and giving them anaesthetic injections.
In late 2021 in the southern province of Hormozgan, they were found guilty of collaborating in 12 cases of sexual assault, according to the judiciary’s Mizan Online website.
According to Hormozgan’s Chief Justice Mojtaba Ghahramani, the three males “who raped a number of women in an unauthorised beauty salon were hanged in Bandar Abbas prison this morning.”
Seven victims were persuaded to the fictitious clinic by one of the men, a medical assistant, using “false advertisements” for cosmetic operations that were posted online. After injecting the victims with an anaesthetic medication, he then sexually assaulted them.
According to the report, the remaining two convicts, who were also nurses, were executed for their involvement in five rape cases and the theft of drugs.
Iran executed 582 individuals last year, the highest number since 2015, according to Amnesty International, making it the third highest executing country after China.
