An Iranian court has sentenced five men to be lashed hundred times after they were found guilty of kidnapping and raping two women in 2005, ISNA news agency reported on Saturday. The sentence has already been carried out against one of them who was publicly whipped in the town of Shiravan in North Khorasan province, the report said.
Four of the five men have been sentenced to 100 lashes each, while the fifth is to be lashed 99 times, it said.

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