hand amputation mandated by law in Iran under the mullahs

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In 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.

Man Sentenced to Have Four Fingers Amputated For Theft in Iran

by Iran HRM

October 4, 2020

Iran has sentenced a young man to have four fingers amputated as a punishment for stealing. The 2nd Branch of ...

Iran to Amputate the Fingers of 3 Men Convicted of Stealing

by Iran HRM

September 18, 2020

Iran has sentenced four men to have four fingers amputated each as a punishment for theft and the verdicts have ...

Torture

Iran Supreme Court Upholds Cutting the Fingers of Four Inmates in Urmia

by Iran HRM

June 26, 2020

‌The Iranian Supreme Court upheld a ruling for cutting the four fingers of the right hands of four men in ...

Torture

Authorities Amputate Man’s Hand in Northern Iran City

by Iran HRM

October 24, 2019

Iranian authorities have amputated the hand of a man convicted of theft in Sari Prison in Mazandaran Province, northern Iran, ...

23 prisoners in Iran at risk of having their hands amputated

by Iran HRM

May 18, 2019

Twenty-three prisoners convicted of theft are languishing in the Great Tehran Penitentiary, Fashafoyeh, awaiting hand amputation. Reports indicate that the ...

Torture