The report did not identify the executed convict.
The latest hanging brings to 187 the number of executions reported in Iran so far this year, according to an AFP tally based on media and official reports.
Iranian media reported 179 hangings last year but international human rights groups say the actual number was much higher, ranking the Islamic republic second only to China in the number of people it executed in 2010.
Tehran says the death penalty is essential to maintain law and order, and that it is applied only after exhaustive judicial proceedings.
Murder, rape, armed robbery, drug trafficking, homosexuality and adultery are among the crimes punishable by death in Iran.
Source: Agence France-Presse, September 11, 2011
Iran Hangs Drug Trafficker
Iran Human Rights, September 11: One prisoner was hanged in the prisoner of Meshgin shahr (in the northwest Iranian province of Ardebil) early morning SUnday September 11.
According to the state-run Iranian news agency ISNA, the prisoner who was not identified by name, was convicted of drug trafficking.
In the last week at least 17 people have been executed in the Iranian prisons, 13 of them being confirmed by the official Iranian sources.
Iran Human Rights has previously warnedagainst a new wave of executions in the weeks after the month of Ramedan.
Source: Iran Human Rights, September 11, 2011
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