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Iran regime plans to chop off prisoners’ fingers as punishment

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NCRI – Iran’s fundamentalist regime plans to amputate the fingers of several prisoners who are accused of stealing, the local judiciary chief of Tehran’s districts 16 and 17 said on Tuesday.

The local judiciary chief, a notorious mullah called Sadeq Rezvani, told the Mizan Online News Agency, which is affiliated to the regime’s Judiciary, that the prisoners were all caught stealing in Tehran in the past five months.

He said that several prisoners have received sentences to each have four of their fingers chopped off. He added that their cases were pending an appeal.

On May 9, 2016, the mullahs’ regime amputated the fingers of a man in his thirties in the city of Mashhad, north-east Iran, the latest in a line of draconian punishments handed down and carried out.

The inhumane sentence was carried out in the Central Prison of Mashhad. The state-run Khorasan newspaper identified the victim by his initials M. T., adding that he was 39 years old. The prisoner was accused of theft and is also serving a 3-year jail sentence.

The sentence was upheld by the regime’s Court of Appeal.

The regime’s prosecutor in Mashhad, Gholamali Sadeqi, said: “One of the most important policies in the current year is confronting criminals and carrying out sentences precisely and decisively.”

Commenting on the amputation, Ms. Farideh Karimi, a member of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) and a human rights activist, said that such acts “point to the barbarity of the mullahs’ regime which has unfortunately become more worrisome due to the international community’s inaction.”

“It is now incumbent upon [the UN Special Rapporteur of the human rights situation in Iran] Mr. Ahmed Shaheed to urgently take necessary and effective action to halt the wave of executions and medieval tortures,” she added.