Posted on 1/7/2008, 10:07:30 PM by knighthawk
Tehran, Iran, Jan. 07 – Authorities amputated the hands and legs of five individuals as punishment for alleged crimes in the volatile province of Sistan-va-Baluchistan, state media reported.
All five men had their right hand and left foot severed, the state-owned news agency ISNA said on Sunday.
The amputations were carried out in the provincial capital Zahedan, south-east Iran, the report said.
The five men were identified as A. Rigi, A.B. Rigi, A.R. Roudini, D. Pahlevan, and M.A. Jalali.
They had been charged with being “mohareb” (or “waging war on God”) and “corruption on earth” for allegedly robbing people and taking hostages.
Iranian authorities routinely execute dissidents on bogus charges such as armed robbery and drug smuggling.
In the past, Iran’s judiciary has executed political opponents of the Islamic Republic on the charge of being a mohareb.
Sistan-va-Baluchistan Province is home to Baluchis, a predominantly Sunni Muslim ethnic minority.
Iran has witnessed escalating unrest since 2006 in areas populated by Baluchis, who complain of discriminatory and repressive policies by the theocratic regime.
Since 2006, Iranian authorities have stepped up executions in the restive province in what many Baluchis believe is a response to a spate of attacks by dissidents on government and security officials.
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.
Trying to get a leg up, or looking for a hand out?
Just trying to get a foot in the door.
Islam -— Religion of Pieces.
That's a new one for me.
Now willing to accept hand me downs.
And what’s all this talk of discriminatory and repressive policies by the theocratic regime?
The vorpal blade went snicker snack...
Are they going out on a limb with this idea?
Apparently placing people in a sack and throwing them off of cliffs is not practiced very often.
Either that, or the press is not covering this form of Islamic justice.
Just doing the job that other religions won’t do.
Hmmmm...would that be considered cruel and unusual?
Geeeee...where’s the NYT on this? I mean surely this is something Amnesty International would go after as well? /sarcasm
Just wonderin'.
As barbaric as this is, I’ve always thought it is the perfect punishment for the creeps that deface our public spaces, private buildings, freeways, railroad cars, buses, street signs, etc with graffiti. You probably wouldn’t have lop off too many hands before the problem got under control.
Hadiths 005.033
YUSUFALI: The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger, and strive with might and main for mischief through the land is: execution, or crucifixion, or the cutting off of hands and feet from opposite sides, or exile from the land: that is their disgrace in this world, and a heavy punishment is theirs in the Hereafter;
Ping
Ya, but its still a good thing that nasty old Shah is gone. Just ask Jimmy Carter.
Kinda puts “waterboarding” into a new persepctive.
Especially when you consider those that have it administered to them came from regions of the world where instead of just *thinking* they were dying, they *actually* lost a limb. (and for much less than why they are in our custody).
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