THE TIMES: The Iranian Sunni militant leader Abdolmalek Rigi, who waged a deadly insurgency in the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchestan, has been hanged in prison.
“After the decision of the Tehran revolutionary tribunal, Abdolmalek Rigi was hanged on Sunday morning in Evin prison,” the state news agency IRNA said.
It quoted a court statement as saying: “The head of the armed counter-revolutionary group in the east of the country ... was responsible for armed robbery, assassination attempts, armed attacks on the army and police and on ordinary people, and murder.”
The hanging came after authorities exhausted legal requirements following months of interrogation and trial on charges of “being corrupt on earth; for waging a bloody campaign in Iran’s southeast”.
Mr Rigi, leader of the Sunni militant group called Jundallah (Soldiers of God) [جندالله], was arrested in February by Iranian intelligence agents while flying from Dubai to Kyrgyzstan. Read on and comment >>> Claire Sweeney | Monday, June 21, 2010
