Inhumane Use of Hand Amputation as Judicial Punishment in Iran
Iran has been repeatedly criticized for employing severe corporal punishments, particularly hand amputation, as part of its judicial system. Despite ...
Read moreDetailsIn the past years judicial authorities in Iran have imposed and carried out cruel and inhuman punishments amounting to torture, including hand amputation, flogging and blinding.
In a shocking statement before the UN Human Rights Council in October 2010, Mohammad Javad Larijani, the head of Iran’s Human Rights Council, denied that such punishments amount to torture, claiming they are “culturally and religiously justified”.
The Iranian regulatory code for implementation of corporal punishments such as hand amputation requires the presence of a physician for the assessment and enforcement of the sentence. This is in direct violation of ethical guidelines and international human rights law, which expressly prohibit health providers’ involvement in torture and other ill-treatment.
Iran has been repeatedly criticized for employing severe corporal punishments, particularly hand amputation, as part of its judicial system. Despite ...
Read moreDetailsOn Thursday, September 1, 2022, the verdict to amputate the fingers of a prisoner named Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini was carried ...
Read moreDetailsA prisoner's hand got infected after his fingers were amputated in Tehran's Evin Prison. Four fingers of Seyyed Barat Hosseini, ...
Read moreDetailsThe prosecutor of Khorasan Razavi Province said that the amputation sentences against some people convicted of robbery are in the ...
Read moreDetailsAmnesty International said that the international community must use all diplomatic means available to stop the Iranian authorities from amputating ...
Read moreDetailsFormer political prisoner Arash Sadeghi said that Iranian authorities amputated the fingers of a prisoner for theft in Tehran's Evin ...
Read moreDetailsA man awaiting finger amputation in a northwestern Iran prison has been sentenced to additional four years in prison and ...
Read moreDetailsA prisoner who has been sentenced to have his fingers amputated, was flogged Sunday at Urmia Central Prison. Hadi Rostami, ...
Read moreDetailsA senior Iranian MP has called for implementation of hand amputation punishment for 'petty thieves', while referring to surge in ...
Read moreDetailsIran’s Supreme Court has sentenced two brothers to have their fingers amputated for stealing. The Branch 24 of the Supreme ...
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