Two days earlier, regime’s henchmen amputated four fingers of a 29 year old man in public in Shiraz. The city’s public prosecutor Ali Alghasi described the amputation as “serious warning” to all those who “cause insecurity”. He emphasized that the agenda of the judiciary is “decisiveness and intolerance”.
Furthermore, according to state-run media outlets, a 27 year old prisoner was hanged publicly in Kerman on January 26. Also seven other prisoners were executed in past five days: two prisoners in Ilam and Shahroud on January 24, one prisoner in Khorramdarreh on January 23, and three prisoners in Qazvin on January 22.
Putting up the gallows in prisons and cities across the country and carrying out inhuman punishment of amputation of fingers in front of the frightened eyes of the people is done to create an atmosphere of fear and terror in order to prevent any public discontent particularly as the Iranian regime’s sham presidential election is approaching.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
January 28, 2013