June 22 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The UN Human Rights office has expressed “deep concern” about the imminent amputation of fingers of eight men convicted in Iran of robbery and has urged the Iranian authorities not to carry out these punishments.
The Iranian Justice sentenced these eight men to the amputation of four fingers of their right hand, “so that only the palm of the hand and the thumbs remain.” The UN anticipates his next transfer to a Tehran prison that has recently had a guillotine specially designed for this type of cut and that would have already been used at the end of May with another prisoner.
The spokeswoman for the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ravina Shamdasani, has summoned the Iranian authorities in a statement to “urgently review” their laws so as not to apply physical punishments such as flogging or stoning and thus comply with the conventions international.
Civil society organizations estimate that at least 237 people were sentenced to amputations between January 2000 and September 2020, most of them poor citizens. The sentences were applied in at least 129 of these cases.
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