Posted on 01/29/2013 5:36:10 PM PST by SJackson
The Iranians have unveiled an amputating machine that will be used to cut off fingers of thieves. The authorities recently exhibited the machine and gave a demonstration of its efficiency as stern warning to would-be-thieves under Islamic penal code.
The photos published by the Iranian Press Agency, appear to show a public amputation. According to The Telegraph, the sweatsuit-clad prisoner in the photo was convicted of theft and adultery by a court in the southwest city of Shiraz, last Wednesday. France24 reports he was also accused of leading a criminal organisation. Three masked executioners dressed in black are shown implementing the grim sentence. Two hold the blindfolded prisoner's right hand in a vice while the third operates a wheel that turns the guillotine device . The Telegraph notes that the prisoner shows no signs of pain in all of the photos, suggesting he may have been drugged.
France24 reports that the prisoner was also sentenced to three years in prison and 99 lashes of the whip after fingers from one hand had been cut off. France24 comments: "No independent witnesses were able to recount the circumstances under which this amputation took place."
According to The Telegraph, following the public amputation, Ali Alghasi, Shiraz district's public prosecutor, issued a stern warning to criminals, saying that severe sentences under Iran's Islamic penal code would become severer still.
Fox News reports that Mahmoud Amiry-Moghaddam, a spokesman for Iran Human Rights, said incidents of public executions tend to increase as elections draw near. He told France24: “We have noticed that the authorities have recently being making more and more publicity surrounding cases of corporal punishment. Every time we get closer to an election, the number of these incidents increases. And we’re getting quite close to the presidential election [slated for June]. I believe this is a strategy to instill fear in the population so as to avoid any protests.”
The Huffington Post reports that in 2008, the Iranian ambassador to Spain spoke in defense of Iran's use of amputation as punishment. He said amputations under Iran's penal code could be compared to its use in medical surgery to stop spread of gangrene.
The ambassador Seyed Davoud Salehi reportedly said: "Our laws allow for the amputation of the hand that steals. This is not accepted by the West, but the field of human rights should take into account the customs, traditions, religion and economic development."
International human rights groups have persistently deplored Iran's human rights record, pointing out that public execution by various Medieval procedures such as stoning, torture, flogging and amputation, are carried out regularly.
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See, they invent things!
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See, they invent things!
Bet the guy who invented it was a wood shop teacher.
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Only fingers?
Left his thumb, that’s a good thing.
lookslike it was made out of 70 year old parts. wonder if it’s on loan from the commie paradise of cuba.
It doesn’t seem to be very sterile. I do hope they are cleaning in properly.
Hmmm. Perhaps we can use these on govt. gun-grabbers?
*** Two hold the blindfolded prisoner’s right hand in a vice while the third operates a wheel that turns the guillotine device .***
Then what is the motor for?
Crude backward construction for crude barbaric Muslims. This is high entertainment for these inbreds
Or a cigar smoker.
Might be an interesting solution to gun and knife robberies.
Wonder what else they might use this on?
This give a whole new meaning to ‘fingering the perp’.
I do hope they are cleaning in properly.
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That is right. Wouldn’t want the next guy/gal contracting AIDS or Hepatitis from a dirty machine.
The party may sue
I see a lot of uses for it.
Lying - cut off the tongue
Rape - cut off the tool.
Put that machine in Detroit and it would be as busy as the Gov’s Gallows in ‘Blazing Saddles’
Course, loan it out to different cities and the crime rate would drop tremendously.
Introducing the all new Widget De-Digit.
motor because it is “high tech”
but no electricity, so ...
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