In an interview with Radio Farda’s Baktash Khamsehpour, renowned veteran Iranian lawyer Ahmad Bashiri confirmed that, based on the Islamic code, punishment by amputation is still practiced in Iran.īashiri, a prominent judge before Iran’s 1979 revolution, said, “As long as the Islamic penal code rules over Iran’s justice system, punishment by amputation of organs will also continue.”Įarlier, the state-run Radio and TV had reported that the hands of three thieves had been amputated in the city of Qom, south of the capital, Tehran.Īccording to the deputy prosecutor-general of Qom, Youniss Davoudi, the amputations took place last month at Qom’s central prison. “To provide security, the judiciary has a firm position vis-a-vis thieves who steal people's belongings,” Sadeqi affirmed. The convict’s younger brother, who was 22 at the time of the crime, was sentenced to ten years in prison and 74 lashes. Sadeqi described the punishment as executing “God’s chastening.”
On October 14, the Khorasan newspaper quoted Sadeqi as saying, “The thief’s hand was amputated on Thursday while justice department officials and physicians were present at Mashhad’s central prison.” “The convict, collaborating with his younger brother, robbed a jewelry shop nearly six years ago, when he was 25 years old,” announced ultraconservative Prosecutor-General Gholam Ali Sadeqi. The prosecutor-general for Mashhad in Khorasan Razavi Province in northeast Iran says a man convicted of robbery has had his hand amputated.
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