1.   Robin Munro, a London-based China scholar and human rights advocate, said the real total is much higher because many executions are never reported.

2.   Robin Munro, a China scholar and human rights advocate, said the real total was much higher because many executions are never reported.

3.   The executions were reported earlier in a Beijing newspaper controlled by the Communist Party.

4.   After a hiatus of several years in which executions were rarely reported, judicial hangings in Iran appear to have risen in recent months.

5.   But the state-controlled media have reported few executions in recent years, with Iranian officials claiming they are winning the war on drugs.

6.   Italian papers also reported the execution.

7.   Mass executions have been reported by many Irbil residents and by Iraqi opposition groups, but no witnesses have been found.

8.   Meanwhile, refugees who fled Kunduz to the nearby village of Bangi reported summary executions by the besieged Taliban.

9.   Since the hostilities resumed this April, security forces have refrained from reporting extrajudicial executions, it said.

10.   The execution was witnessed by reporters and photographers, who reported the execution in national newspapers.