NCRI – The President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, described the cutting off of the hand of a prisoner in Mashhad, northeastern Iran, as an example of the regime’s unbridled barbarism in its faltering state that sees the intensification of repression as the only way to deal with growing public disenchantment. Mrs. Rajavi added that the leaders of the religious fascism know that the moment they halt their cycle of criminal acts, they will be removed by the arisen people of Iran forever.
She said: The international community is now facing a crucial test to stand firm against a bloodthirsty religious dictatorship that is considered to be a shame for humanity in the 21st Century and reject it. Any economic and political ties with such a regime must be made contingent upon the cessation of cruel punishments and improvement of human rights in Iran.
On Tuesday, October 12, the clerical regime’s media reported that the hand of a prisoner was amputated in Mashhad prison for his part in a robbery. The punishment was carried out before the eyes of the other prisoners. On October 2, a prisoner in Qazvin was sentenced to have his fingers amputated. In July, the fingers of five young prisoners were amputated in Hamedan prison.
Mullah Zoqi, Mashhad’s criminal prosecutor, said: Amputation of hand was carried out before the eyes of a number of prisoners in order to teach them a lesson… This is not the last time, the hands of thieves will be amputated in future… We will not have merci on them… What a thief does can be considered as an act of moharebeh (waging war on God) that is punishable by execution.”
Amputation of young prisoners’ hands for the alleged petty crimes take place while the ruling mullahs and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) have over the past three decades plundered billions of dollars of the deprived Iranian people’s wealth. These days, in the course of infighting within the regime, the scandal involving the plunder of the nation’s wealth have seeped into state-run newspapers by one of the ruling factions. According to published reports, Rahimi, first vice president of Ahmadinejad, leads this faction.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
October 13, 2010