{"id":9713,"date":"2010-12-20T16:22:35","date_gmt":"2010-12-20T13:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=9713"},"modified":"2010-12-20T16:23:34","modified_gmt":"2010-12-20T13:23:34","slug":"iran-hangs-11-jundullah-sunni-militants-20122010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/iran-hangs-11-jundullah-sunni-militants-20122010\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran hangs 11 Jundullah Sunni militants"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Iran has hanged 11 members of a Sunni militant group Jundullah for murder and terrorism, the country’s justice ministry said.<\/p>\n

The men were executed at dawn in Zahedan, the capital of the south-eastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan.<\/p>\n

Officials said they belonged to Jundullah, which said it was behind an attack on a mosque last week which killed 39 people.<\/p>\n

But it is not clear whether those executed were involved in that attack.<\/p>\n

In June, Iran killed Jundullah’s leader, but attacks have continued.<\/p>\n

“The people of Sistan-Baluchestan province, in their continuing campaign against the elements of cruelty and insecurity, hanged 11 people at Zahedan prison,” the justice ministry said in a statement on Fars news agency.<\/p>\n

Ebrahim Hamidi, head of the provincial justice department, told state news agency Irna that the group had received a fair trial and had been charged with “corruption on earth, fighting against God and the Prophet and confronting the sacred regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran”.
\nDeprived province<\/p>\n

The deadly suicide bombing outside the Imam Hossein Mosque in the city of Chabahar on 15 December killed and wounded scores.<\/p>\n

Founded in 2003, Jundullah (Soldiers of God) says it is fighting for the culture and faith of the ethnic Baluch people.<\/p>\n

The majority of Iran’s ethnic Baluchi population live in Sistan-Baluchistan and adhere to the Sunni branch of Islam. They claim that as a minority in a Shia state, they are persecuted by the authorities.<\/p>\n

Sistan-Baluchistan is one of Iran’s most deprived provinces and its location also makes it a key route in the international drugs trade.<\/p>\n

Iran caught Jundullah leader Abdolmalek Rigi while he was on a flight from Dubai to Kyrgyzstan in February, and executed him in June.<\/p>\nError, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 8)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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