Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Four prisoners, Morteza Esmaeilian, Hadi Rostami, Mehdi Shahivand and Mehdi Sharafian, who were sentenced to the amputation of four fingers on their right hands, are at imminent risk of having their sentences carried out in the central prisons of Orumiyeh and Tabriz, in the provinces of West and East Azerbaijan respectively. In late May, Esmaeilian was transferred from Orumiyeh Central Prison to Tabriz Central Prison...

Morteza Esmaeilian, a prisoner sentenced to the amputation of four fingers on his right hand, has been transferred to an undisclosed location, raising fears that the punishment may soon be carried out. Esmaeilian, a 45-year-old man from Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan Province, who is also serving a 15-year prison sentence for theft, was recently moved from Orumiyeh Central Prison under the pretext of a transfer to...

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...