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Afghanistan: 5 men executed for gang-rape

| | Oct 09, 2014, at 05:37 am
Kabul, Oct 8 (IBNS) Afghanistan has hanged five men convicted of a gang-rape and armed robbery in country's Paghman district on Wednesday, media reports said.

An official at the Attorney General’s Office told country's Pajhwok Afghan News the five men and the notorious serial killer Istalif were executed at the Pul-i-Charkhi prison in the afternoon.

Under tight security, all the men were brought to the prison in an ambulance.

"Former President Hamid Karzai had approved and signed the execution order for the five rapists and Islatif before leaving office last month,"  Pajhwok Afghan News reported.

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