court sentences three convicts to death over Shiraz bombing

November 30, 2008 - 0:0

TEHRAN – Tehran Revolutionary Court has sentenced the three convicted men to death for involvement in a mosque explosion in southern city of Shiraz, ISNA reported on Saturday.

The bombing occurred in April that killed 14 people and injured 212 others.
Rouzbeh Yahyazadeh, 32, Mohsen Eslamian, 21, and Ali Asghar Pashtar, 20, will be hanged in Shiraz near the mosque where the explosion took place after the Supreme Court upheld their sentences.
Under Iranian law, all execution orders must be upheld by Iran's Supreme Court.
In a hearing at Tehran Revolutionary court they had confessed to bombing and also said they had plans to carry out a series of bombings across Iran.
A further four people have been charged over the Shiraz blast and will be tried in the near future, said Ali Akbar Haidarifar, representative of Tehran's prosecutor.