News item: "Iran has hanged 17 men for 'various drug offences'."
An official is reported to have said: "We in Teheran don't want our prisons overcrowded by these vile persons."
What a pity that the official is not a High Court judge in England!
JOHN WILSON York Road Headington Oxford
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