Kurdistan Human Rights Network

After Iran amputated the four fingers of brothers Shahab and Mehrdad Teymouri in Orumiyeh Central Prison on 29 October, concern has grown that the amputation sentences of prisoners Hadi Rostami, Mehdi Sharifian, Mehdi Shahivand, Kasra Karami and Morteza Esmaeilian are in imminent danger of being carried out. The Teymouri brothers were returned to Orumiyeh Central Prison after being hospitalised for several hours and without completing...

Prisoner Morteza Esmaeilian, who has been convicted of theft, is at imminent risk of finger amputation in Orumiyeh, north-western Iran. The prisoner who was sentenced to the amputation of four fingers of his right hand over "theft", was transferred for the execution of his sentence from Orumiyeh Central Prison to an undisclosed location on 31 December. "On 28 December, the Public Prosecutor and the Chief Justice...