Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Three prisoners are at imminent risk of having their four fingers amputated after the judicial authorities in Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan Province, announced that a guillotine would be transferred to the city's central prison in the coming days. On 14 April, prisoners Hadi Rostami, Mehdi Shahivand, and Mehdi Sharafian were summoned to the Enforcement of Judgements Office of Orumiyeh Central Prison, where Orumiyeh’s Deputy Prosecutor, Saeid...

Hadi Rostami, a prisoner from Ilam, Ilam Province, has written an open letter to human rights organisations, urging them to intervene and stop the imminent execution of his amputation sentence. “I call on human rights organisations, the United Nations, and all international bodies to take urgent action to prevent the execution of this inhumane sentence”, he said in his letter. Rostami, along with two co-defendants, Mehdi...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that the amputation sentence of four fingers of the right hand" of three prisoners accused of robbery at Orumiyeh Central Prison, -Hadi Rostami, Mehdi Sharafian and Mehdi Shahivand- was approved by the Supreme Court and sent to the Orumiyeh Enforcement Office to be executed. According to the indictments filed by Branch 13 of the Supreme Court, headed...

A prisoner detained at Orumiyeh Central Prison charged with robbery was sentenced to hand amputation by Branch 1 of the Criminal Court (Children & Adolescents Division) in Orumiyeh. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that Kasra Karami, born in 1980 as son of Yadollah from Kermanshah who was arrested on October 2015, was sentenced to hand Amputation by Branch 1 of the Orumiyeh...