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Back to the Old Habit, Or Cutting Off Fingers
Kamangir | February 27, 2007 | Category Iran
If you, and frankly I, thought that cutting off hands was something for the past, we were dead wrong. See these,
1- Fars reports that the “commission for stopping electricity cable theft” in Shiraz decided to “cut off cable thieves’ hands in public”.
2- IRNA reports that four fingers of F. Hosseini, 46-year-old male, were cut off in public, yesterday 3pm in Kermanshah. He was convicted for breaking into 22 safes.
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Dude, you are kind of picturing Iran like Saudi Arabia, that is so untrue…
Fair translation requires the entire text to be translated, not just the headline. At the second news it is indicated that 16 conditions must be satisfied in order to execute such a verdict.
Iran’s Islamic penal system regularly practices centuries-old sentences for petty crimes, such as amputation of limbs, eye gouging, stoning to death, and throwing prisoners off a cliff in a sac.
Doesn’t matter how you justify or rationalize it… murder, torture in the name of God or whomever are disgrace to humanity and show lack of universal ethics and morality. Savagery in the name of any religion is idefensible, a return to the dark ages.
Kamangir: Great site to visit:
http://eteraz.org/
http://eteraz.org/main/2
Saeed - can you please explain your posting a little more - what are the 16 conditions?
Saeed
Even if there were 16 conditions (btw what are they?) before the fingers would be cut,the cutting of fingers (or a hand) still means that the fingers (or a hand) will be cut. In KSA there are also some conditions before the hands would be cut.
Shahin,
Thanks. :)
[...] seems that the recent finger-cutting-related incidents were part of an emerging trend. According to IRNA, the head of the Judiciary in Kermanshah Province [...]