Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Iran today executed amputation sentences on two prisoners, Shahab and Mehrdad Teymouri, cutting off four fingers of each brother’s right hand using a guillotine device at Orumiyeh Central Prison, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. The executions come after KHRN raised concerns about the likelihood of these sentences being carried out in a recent report, highlighting that Orumiyeh's forensic team had visited the...

Iranian authorities have transferred two imprisoned brothers, Shahab and Mehrdad Teymouri, who have been sentenced to finger amputation, from Eslamabad-e Gharb Prison in Kermanshah Province to solitary confinement in Orumiyeh Central Prison in West Azerbaijan Province, raising fears of imminent execution of their sentences. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that Shahab, 39, and Mehrdad, 34, were previously transferred to Eslamabad-e Gharb in...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that the amputation sentence of four fingers of the right hand" of two imprisoned brothers accused of robbery at Orumiyeh Central Prison, -Shahab and Mehrdad Teymouri- which was previously issued in Branch 1 of the Orumiyeh Juvenile Court. Mehrdad Teymouri was born on September 21, 1990, and Shahab Teymouri was born on June 10, 1985, in Sarpol-e...