<p>As part of its latest executions, the government authorities in Iran hanged two murder convicts in the south-eastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan province, said the judiciary on Monday.</p>

<p>Elias Raisi was found guilty of committing murder over to a family dispute in 2020, and Ayoub Rigi had killed the victim over a “personal difference” using a military weapon, stated the judiciary's Mizan Online news website.&nbsp;</p>

<p>The convicts were hanged on Saturday after the families of victims did not grant them clemency under Islamic law, said Mehdi Shamsabadi, chief prosecutor in the provincial capital Zahedan.&nbsp;</p>

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<p>The executions were held two days after the judiciary announced the hanging of three people guilty of armed robbery and rape in Shiraz, the southern city of Iran.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Earlier in December, the judiciary sentenced to death two men held in connection with protests being held against the death of Mahsa Amini, an Iranian-Kurdish woman who died in police custody on September 16 after she was arrested by the morality police for failing to abide by the Islamic dress code for women.&nbsp;</p>

<p>23-year-old Majidreza Rahnavard was publicly hanged on December 12 after he was sentenced by a court in Mashhad for murdering two security forces members using a knife.</p>

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<p>Four days before that, another 23-year-old, Mohsen Shekari, was hanged after he wounded a member of the security forces.&nbsp;</p>

<p>So far, 11 people have been given the death penalty by the judiciary after they were arrested in the protests, out of which two have been hanged and the two have been permitted retrials.</p>

<p><em>(With inputs from agencies)</em></p>

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As part of its latest executions, the government authorities in Iran hanged two murder convicts in the south-eastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan province, said the judiciary on Monday.

As part of its latest executions, the government authorities in Iran hanged two murder convicts in the south-eastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan province, said the judiciary on Monday. Elias Raisi was found guilty of committing murder over to a family dispute in 2020, and Ayoub Rigi had killed the victim over a “personal difference” using a military weapon, stated the judiciary's Mizan Online news website. The convicts were hanged on Saturday after the families of victims did not grant them clemency under Islamic law, said Mehdi Shamsabadi, chief prosecutor in the provincial capital Zahedan. ALSO READ| As Iran's anti-hijab protests cross the 100 days mark, let's take a look at some of the key moments The executions were held two days after the judiciary announced the hanging of three people guilty of armed robbery and rape in Shiraz, the southern city of Iran. Earlier in December, the judiciary sentenced to death two men held in connection with protests being held against the death of Mahsa Amini, an Iranian-Kurdish woman who died in police custody on September 16 after she was arrested by the morality police for failing to abide by the Islamic dress code for women. 23-year-old Majidreza Rahnavard was publicly hanged on December 12 after he was sentenced by a court in Mashhad for murdering two security forces members using a knife. WATCH| Iran: Mahsa Amini protests rage on, government cornered in range of issues Four days before that, another 23-year-old, Mohsen Shekari, was hanged after he wounded a member of the security forces. So far, 11 people have been given the death penalty by the judiciary after they were arrested in the protests, out of which two have been hanged and the two have been permitted retrials. (With inputs from agencies)

Two murder convicts hanged in Iran as part of latest executions

<p>The then United States President Donald Trump reportedly approved to ‘hang Mike Pence’ chants by rioters, expressing support for hanging his Vice President during the US Capitol Hill riots on January 6, 2021.</p>

<p>The New York Times reported, that two witnesses have confirmed to the House Committee investigating the Capitol Hill Riots that Mark Meadows, then Trump’s chief of staff, heard Trump “saying something to the effect of, maybe Mr Pence should be hung”. Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide to Mr Meadows, and one more witness are said to have confirmed his statement.</p>

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<p>On January 6, 2021, a mob in support of Trump took over the Capitol Building in Washington D.C. disrupting a joint Congress session assembled to count electoral votes that would formalise Joe Biden’s victory in the Presidential elections. The mob intended to overturn Trump’s defeat in the 2020 US Presidential elections.</p>

<p>A gibbet was set up outside the Capitol building by the rioters. The angry mob wanted to hang Pence because of Trump advisors’ efforts to pursue him to reject electoral college results, but he did not concede.</p>

<p>After Pence said that he did not believe he had the authority to reject electoral college votes, Trump tweeted that "Mike Pence didn't have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our country and our Constitution, giving States a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. The USA demands the truth!"</p>

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The then United States President Donald Trump reportedly approved to ‘hang Mike Pence’ chants by rioters, expressing support for hanging his Vice President during the US Capitol Hill riots on January 6, 2021. The New York Times reported, that two witnesses have confirmed to the House Committee investigating the Capitol Hill Riots that Mark Meadows, then Trump’s chief of staff, heard Trump “saying something to the effect of, maybe Mr Pence should be hung”. Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide to Mr Meadows, and one more witness are said to have confirmed his statement. The January 6th Committee has an inside witness that Trump floated the idea of having Mike Pence hanged, per the NY Times. It took the committee a long time to crack Trump’s inner circle. But now it’s exposed Trump’s actions as a sedition, domestic terrorism, and murder plot. — Palmer Report (@PalmerReport) May 25, 2022 × On January 6, 2021, a mob in support of Trump took over the Capitol Building in Washington D.C. disrupting a joint Congress session assembled to count electoral votes that would formalise Joe Biden’s victory in the Presidential elections. The mob intended to overturn Trump’s defeat in the 2020 US Presidential elections. A gibbet was set up outside the Capitol building by the rioters. The angry mob wanted to hang Pence because of Trump advisors’ efforts to pursue him to reject electoral college results, but he did not concede. After Pence said that he did not believe he had the authority to reject electoral college votes, Trump tweeted that "Mike Pence didn't have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our country and our Constitution, giving States a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. The USA demands the truth!" Both Pence and Trump are planning to run as the Republican Presidential candidate in the 2024 US Presidential elections. WATCH WION LIVE HERE You can now write for wionews.com and be a part of the community. Share your stories and opinions with us here.

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<p>Who would&#39;ve guessed that two warrior shields sealed at the rims to suspiciously resemble a miniature UFO, wok or barbeque grill is a musical instrument called &#39;hang&#39; (pronounced as hung)? &quot;I get stopped at security checks, till I play it and then everyone is entertained for a while,&quot; chuckles 40-year-old Canadian fusion artist Gurpreet Chana (aka The Tabla Guy), a tabla exponent since 30 years who&#39;s been playing the hang for 13. What made it easy for Chana to adapt to the percussive hang, is that it is tapped, palmed or drummed, very similarly like the tabla.</p>

<p>The hang belongs to the idiophone family, an instrument which creates vibrations minus the use of strings. It&#39;s one of the few that marries rhythm with melody. Swiss duo and physicists Felix Rohner and Sabina Sch&auml;rer developed the steel hang after years of R&amp;D, tuning and observing instruments as esoteric as the concave Carribean steel pan. The top side (ding) is given a ceramic-brittle feel with indentations at select points and the bottom (gu) has a hole in the centre, such that the surface bounces off a whole new sonic level for a plethora of sounds it&#39;s pretuned to produce. For instance, in Chana&#39;s hang, the ding is tuned to Akebono scale of Japanese traditional music that can smoothly fit into an Indian classical music scene, and the gu emits Nigerian udu and Carnatic ghatam. With only 7,000 hangs in existence, Chana considers himself fortunate to possess an original.</p>

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<p>Conversation starters with another hang artiste is usually sheer astonishment: &quot;Wow! You have a hang too?&quot; before discussing technique, practice, and scales.</p>

<p>Chana took to the hang like a fish to water 13 years ago when a cellist showed to it him at a music festival in Quebec. &quot;In that first encounter, I knew I wanted one. Five years later I got my own. I didn&#39;t see anybody play the hang but I just took techniques from the tabla. That&#39;s the beauty of the hang. There is no right and wrong way. Its designed to engage not inhibit the player&quot; explains Chana, who enjoys melodies of hang masters Adrian Portia, Manu Delago and Davide Swarup and has jammed with flutists and drummers, and even an ensemble of bansuri, singing bowl, violin and tabla artistes. Soft-spoken and calm, the lean and turbaned Chana manages to attract diverse audiences to the hang. This was evident at his performance last week at Mumbai&#39;s Bhau Daji Lad museum, where he managed to turn a majority of the visitors into the audience.</p>

<p>Chana hasn&#39;t ditched the tabla&nbsp;for the hang, but keeps flitting between or amalgamating the two during performance and riyaaz, evident in a YouTube video where he flexes amazing dexterity in playing the tabla and hang simultaneously. &quot;Tabla means engaging with my faith, spirituality and Punjabi culture. It gave me the skill and tool set to approach other percussive instruments like the djembe, and now the hang. I spend time with both, as both are interconnected, practising one helps the other. In fact, the hang has bettered my tabla skills,&quot; says Chana who accompanies kirtans on the tabla at the local gurdwara in Canada, as he&#39;s been doing since age three.</p>


Canada-based tabla artiste Gurpreet Chana talks about the mysterious UFO-looking percussion instrument he plays

Who would've guessed that two warrior shields sealed at the rims to suspiciously resemble a miniature UFO, wok or barbeque grill is a musical instrument called 'hang' (pronounced as hung)? "I get stopped at security checks, till I play it and then everyone is entertained for a while," chuckles 40-year-old Canadian fusion artist Gurpreet Chana (aka The Tabla Guy), a tabla exponent since 30 years who's been playing the hang for 13. What made it easy for Chana to adapt to the percussive hang, is that it is tapped, palmed or drummed, very similarly like the tabla. The hang belongs to the idiophone family, an instrument which creates vibrations minus the use of strings. It's one of the few that marries rhythm with melody. Swiss duo and physicists Felix Rohner and Sabina Schärer developed the steel hang after years of R&D, tuning and observing instruments as esoteric as the concave Carribean steel pan. The top side (ding) is given a ceramic-brittle feel with indentations at select points and the bottom (gu) has a hole in the centre, such that the surface bounces off a whole new sonic level for a plethora of sounds it's pretuned to produce. For instance, in Chana's hang, the ding is tuned to Akebono scale of Japanese traditional music that can smoothly fit into an Indian classical music scene, and the gu emits Nigerian udu and Carnatic ghatam. With only 7,000 hangs in existence, Chana considers himself fortunate to possess an original. That's the beauty of the hang. There is no right and wrong way. Its designed to engage not inhibit the player × Conversation starters with another hang artiste is usually sheer astonishment: "Wow! You have a hang too?" before discussing technique, practice, and scales. Chana took to the hang like a fish to water 13 years ago when a cellist showed to it him at a music festival in Quebec. "In that first encounter, I knew I wanted one. Five years later I got my own. I didn't see anybody play the hang but I just took techniques from the tabla. That's the beauty of the hang. There is no right and wrong way. Its designed to engage not inhibit the player" explains Chana, who enjoys melodies of hang masters Adrian Portia, Manu Delago and Davide Swarup and has jammed with flutists and drummers, and even an ensemble of bansuri, singing bowl, violin and tabla artistes. Soft-spoken and calm, the lean and turbaned Chana manages to attract diverse audiences to the hang. This was evident at his performance last week at Mumbai's Bhau Daji Lad museum, where he managed to turn a majority of the visitors into the audience. Chana hasn't ditched the tabla for the hang, but keeps flitting between or amalgamating the two during performance and riyaaz, evident in a YouTube video where he flexes amazing dexterity in playing the tabla and hang simultaneously. "Tabla means engaging with my faith, spirituality and Punjabi culture. It gave me the skill and tool set to approach other percussive instruments like the djembe, and now the hang. I spend time with both, as both are interconnected, practising one helps the other. In fact, the hang has bettered my tabla skills," says Chana who accompanies kirtans on the tabla at the local gurdwara in Canada, as he's been doing since age three.

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