Regime hangs eight people

Iranian regime has hanged five men convicted of drug trafficking and three found guilty of murdering policemen, reports said on Saturday.
Five armed drug traffickers were hanged inside a prison in the southern city of Kerman, Iran's ISNA news agency reported without elaborating when the executions were carried out.
In a separate report, the official IRNA news agency said that three men convicted of killing several policemen were hanged in the eastern city of Birjand.
The three were put to death in front of the families of the slain policemen, the news agency said, without specifying whether the executions were carried out inside a prison or in a public place. (AFP - Feb 27, 2010)