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.
That's for the occasional days when the power grid is working.
hold the blindfolded prisoner’s
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Blindfold is a ‘nice touch’
... must be to maintain anonimity
Course guy walking around sans fingers and dripping blood may render the blindfold useless.
The ROP - 'Respect it'. . .says Obama.
Oh. ..and ‘why not’ a special on the ROP and it’s tortures. . .the ‘Religion of Pieces’; would be most apt. . .
Look at it this way! At least he won’t be leaving any fingerprints the next time he steals something! Stupid mooselimbs.
Looks like my grampas old shopsmith 5000 or a binford
At least he won’t be pointing fingers at anybody...
Henchmen!...Safety goggles please!
It looks like a small sheet metal shear.
That is simply a modified trimmer.
I used a similar trimmer when I worked for a dog cage manufacturer.
The excess had to be trimmed off after the welding process to make a panel.
Very effective. And very dangerous.
Gee ...
Israel makes some lovely woodworking tools ... which will amputate your finger, if you’re careless.
Iran makes a finger amputating machine ... that’s bloody worthless for woodworking.
And they try to tell me that all cultures are equal ...
Bullcrap, sez I.
I saw that exact same machine on sale at Sears last week.
Cue the Obama Cairo speech praising Muslims for all the things they “invent”.
A finger guillotine? Well, well, this might be a sign of progress - culturally speaking. This brings them well into 18th century...
It looks like a steel metal sheet steel cutter-punch. They have modified the bottom piece with an aluminum die.
This article is published in the DIGITal Journal. How apropos.
Looks like they have a messed up civil service system like ours. Three guys to do the job that one guy can do. They probably overpaid for that machine. Could of got something cheap from Harbor Freight. North Koreans would do it much simpler, and pass around finger snack food to celebrate. By the way, anyone hear Obama complaining about these punishments? After all, he’s down on real torture like taking nude pics of prisoners and doing water interrogation. Our great leader is silent.
Looking on the bright side, we can be sure that this particular piece of Iranian technology won’t explode and bury dozens of North Koreans alive in a chamber flooded with radioactive, corrosive gas,
And they’re being lenient. Instead of taking a whole hand for a first offense, they just give him the finger.
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