{"id":6976,"date":"2025-10-11T01:46:42","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T01:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/?p=6976"},"modified":"2025-10-11T01:47:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T01:47:13","slug":"execution-of-finger-amputation-sentence-a-sign-of-the-islamic-republics-inhumane-and-regressive-penal-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/prisoner\/execution-of-finger-amputation-sentence-a-sign-of-the-islamic-republics-inhumane-and-regressive-penal-system","title":{"rendered":"Execution of Finger-Amputation Sentence: A Sign of the Islamic Republic\u2019s Inhumane and Regressive Penal System"},"content":{"rendered":"


10 October 2025<\/strong>
News group: Prisoners \u2013 Amputation of Fingers \u2013<\/strong><\/p>\n

Breathing in Confinement<\/strong> \u2013 The inhumane sentence of amputating<\/strong> four fingers of the right hand<\/strong> of a prisoner previously arrested on a charge of \u201ctheft\u201d was carried out in Isfahan Prison.<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to Breathing in Confinement, on 10 October 2025, the amputation sentence against Mohsen Ashiri<\/strong>, a 37-year-old from Zazaran and resident of Isfahan, was executed in Isfahan Central Prison<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Six years ago, Mohsen Ashiri<\/strong> was arrested on a charge of \u201ctheft\u201d and sentenced by the Isfahan Provincial Criminal Court to six months\u2019 imprisonment<\/strong> and amputation of four fingers of his right hand<\/strong>. After serving his prison term and following the complainant\u2019s consent (forgiveness), he was released. However, last month the court summoned him again and set a very heavy bail of 200 billion tomans. Unable to secure bail, he was re-arrested, and the amputation sentence was carried out in less than a month.<\/p>\n

Carrying out amputation<\/strong> as punishment is an unmistakable form of state torture<\/strong> and a clear violation of Article 5 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights<\/strong> and Article 7 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights<\/strong>, both of which prohibit torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading punishment. Such penalties flagrantly violate human dignity and impose a lifelong<\/strong> physical and psychological torment on the victim.<\/p>\n

While ordinary citizens face harsh and inhumane penalties for minor financial offences, those linked to centres of power are treated differently: in a case of structural discrimination<\/strong>, individuals involved in major economic scandals are not only spared punishment but often receive political and economic backing and even promotion. For example, Babak Zanjani<\/strong>, despite a multi-billion-dollar case, has\u2014according to the report\u2014been released from prison with the support of state bodies and has resumed his business activities.<\/p>\n

The Prisoners\u2019 Rights League in Iran<\/strong> stresses that no circumstance<\/strong>\u2014including reliance on domestic law or religious justifications\u2014can legitimise punishments of this kind. Human dignity is inherent to every person<\/strong>, and violating it is unacceptable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

10 October 2025News group: Prisoners – Amputation of Fingers – Breathing in Confinement – The inhumane sentence of amputating four fingers of the right hand of a prisoner previously arrested on a charge of “theft” was carried out in Isfahan Prison. According to Breathing in Confinement, on 10 October 2025, the amputation sentence against Mohsen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1017,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finger-amputation-sentence","category-prisoner"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3yHPi-1Ow","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6978,"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6976\/revisions\/6978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bciran.org\/wplocationen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}