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The leader of Iran's Sunni militant group Jundullah has been hanged on Sunday. Abdolmalek Rigi was put to death in front of families of victims of Jundullah's insurgency. The execution of Rigi, accused by Iranian authorities of carrying out a series of bomb attacks in the country's Sistan-Baluchistan province and of being an agent of the US and Britain, took place at Tehran's notorious Evin prison. Rigi is said to have been tried by Tehran revolutionary tribunal which upheld charges framed against him. Irna (Iranian news agency) also carried a court statement saying Rigi was the head of a counter-revolutionary group... responsible for armed robbery, assassination attempts, armed attacks on the army and police and on ordinary people, and murder. Rigi's arrest in February came in dramatic circumstances when Iranian authorities forced an aircraft carrying him to land in Iran while flying through its airspace.
