Iran Human Rights, January 24: Iranian authorities’ campaign of conducting public, medieval punishments continues. A state-run Iranian news agency reported that the amputation sentence of a prisoner was carried out in public today in the city of Shiraz (southern Iran).
According to the report, the prisoner was a 29-year-old man, identified as “A. S. H.” He was sentenced to amputation of four fingers on the right hand and three years in prison and 99 lashes for engaging in an “immoral relationship”.
The Chief Prosecutor of Shiraz warned that similar sentences for several other prisoners will be carried out in the near future.
Iranian authorities have increased the implementation of public sentences, like lashings, executions and amputations, in recent months. Two young men were hanged publicly on 20 January for allegedly taking part in a mugging in Tehran….
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They are medieval Cultures. Wake up!
Honestly, some of these things–like hanging the muggers–aren’t bad ideas. We in the West have simply become too wimped down to do what needs to be done against such predators on society.
That said, there is still the double-standard of certain elements in this country protesting a humane death penalty here while giving a pass to any foreign regime at odds with us.