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| Five Afghan men have been executed for gang-raping four women, in a case that has sparked national outrage. | |
| Officials say the men were executed in Pul-e-Charkhi prison east of Kabul. A sixth man convicted of unrelated crimes was also hanged. | |
| The authorities ignored last-minute appeals for clemency from rights groups who said the convictions were unsafe. | |
| Violence against women in Afghanistan is rife but correspondents say cases rarely attract this much attention. | |
| The rapes took place in Paghman district near Kabul in August. The women were returning from a wedding. | |
| Many Afghans demanded the death penalty. Former President Hamid Karzai signed the death warrants on his last day in office. | |
| "The court's verdict has been implemented and all the convicts have been executed - five from the Paghman case, plus Habib Istalifi, who was head of a notorious kidnapping gang," the attorney general's chief-of-staff Atta Mohammad Noori told AFP news agency. | |
| There was no word from new President Ashraf Ghani, who took over from Mr Karzai in September. |