2007: Five young men
October 25th, 2008 Headsman
Last year on this date, according to a Deutsche Presse-Agentur report of the Syrian news service, five youths were publicly hanged in Aleppo, Syria.
Syria executed five youths by hanging in a public square on Thursday after they were convicted of murder and robbery, the Syrian news agency reported.
The hanging was carried out in Bab al-Faraj, a public square in the centre of the city of Aleppo, 350 kilometres north of Damascus, in the early hours on Thursday, according to the agency.
Bab al-Faraj square.
A military court had convicted the men, aged between 18 and 23, of premeditated murder for the purpose of committing robbery, according to the online news service, Syriano.
Syrian human rights groups have called for the abolition of military courts, which were installed under emergency law in 1963.
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Entry Filed under: 21st Century, Capital Punishment, Common Criminals, Crime, Death Penalty, Execution, Hanged, Known But To God, Mass Executions, Murder, Public Executions, Ripped from the Headlines, Syria, Theft
Tags: 2007, aleppo, bab al-faraj, october 25
April 8th, 2009 at 12:57 pm
[...] last public execution to take place in the city was back in October 2007, where apparently a group of kids (five, aged 18–23) were running around robbing and slitting [...]