Iran to Amputate the Fingers of 3 Men Convicted of Stealing
Iran has sentenced four men to have four fingers amputated each as a punishment for theft and the verdicts have ...
Read moreIn 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 sentenced four men to have four fingers amputated each as a punishment for theft and the verdicts have ...
Read moreThe Iranian Supreme Court upheld a ruling for cutting the four fingers of the right hands of four men in ...
Read moreIranian authorities have amputated the hand of a man convicted of theft in Sari Prison in Mazandaran Province, northern Iran, ...
Read moreTwenty-three prisoners convicted of theft are languishing in the Great Tehran Penitentiary, Fashafoyeh, awaiting hand amputation. Reports indicate that the ...
Read moreIran's General Prosecutor expressed regret that a number of "divine punishments" are set aside to save Iran from being condemned ...
Read moreA hand amputation sentence against a 38-year old man convicted of robbery was upheld for the third time by the ...
Read moreAlireza Qomi Shandiz, a worker whose four fingers were amputated in Vakil Abad Prison in Mashhad on charges of theft ...
Read moreWhile the amputation of a man's hand for stealing a sheep sparked domestic and international outrage, the head of the ...
Read moreThe state-run Fars news agency cited Judiciary Spokesperson Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje'i, on January 17, 2018 as saying that there would be ...
Read moreA PhD student, who had committed robbery with two of his friends, faces a punishment of hand amputation, according to ...
Read moreABOUT US
Iran Human Rights Monitor website is dedicated to support the Iranian people’s struggle for human rights and amplifies their voices on the international stage. Its purpose is to cover executions, arbitrary arrests, torture and amputation, prison’s conditions, women, social, ethnic and religious minorities oppression news in Iran and fill the gaps in information and knowledge caused by lack of access and freedom to Iran. The information provided by Iran Human Rights Monitor are in collaboration with the NCRI (National Council of Resistance of Iran)
© 2021 Iran Human Rights Monitor - All rights reserved.
© 2021 Iran HRM