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Communist Vietnam's secret death penalty conveyor belt: How country trails only China and Iran for 'astonishing' number of executions

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Prisoners are dragged from their cells at 4am without warning to be given a lethal injection Vietnam's use of the death penalty has been thrust into the spotlight after a real estate tycoon was on Thursday sentenced to be executed in one of the biggest corruption cases in the country's history. Truong My Lan, a businesswoman who chaired a sprawling company that developed luxury apartments, hotels, offices and shopping malls, was arrested in 2022.

Iran: Man has right hand amputated for theft

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Public amputation of a prisoner's right hand, Iran (file photo)
Iran Human Rights (October 25, 2019): Iranian authorities have amputated one hand of a prisoner who was charged with stealing. 

The amputation has been carried out at Sari Central Prison in northern Iran.

According to the Iranian Judiciary’s website, Mizan Online, a man’s hand has been amputated at the central prison of the Iranian northern city of Sari, Mazandaran province. 

He was sentenced to hodud punishment (unalterable punishment prescribed by Divine law which is considered the right of God) which is amputation of four fingers of the right hand for theft. 

Based on Article 201 of the Iranian Islamic Penal Code, robbery is first punished by the amputation of four fingers of the thief’s right hand; for the second time, it’s punished by the amputation of the thief’s left foot, and for the third time, the defendant is sentenced to life in prison. 

The thief is sentenced to death for the fourth time.

Iran Human Rights (IHR) condemns amputation and any other physical punishments and emphasizes the necessity of a change in Iran’s laws to put a stop to these inhumane punishments. 

IHR has previously reported other cases of amputation punishments. However, such punishments are often carried out without the news being announced.

“Such medieval punishments are only meant to terrorize the Iranian people and must not be tolerated by the international community” Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, the spokesperson for IHR said “it also demonstrates the extreme hypocrisy of the Iranian authorities where reports about involvement of highest-level officials in multi-billion corruption cases are not even investigated, but the hand of a petty thief is cut off”.


Man hanged for drug trafficking



Iran Human Rights (IHR); October 19, 2019: A man was hanged at the central prison of the Iranian city of Zanjan last Tuesday.

According to IHR sources, on the morning of Tuesday, October 15, prisoner Bahman Parvizi was hanged at Zanjan prison. 

“Bahman was arrested along with two others five years ago for having 65 kilograms of drugs,” the source told IHR, “all three have been sentenced to death. Bahman’s execution is now carried out and two others are still in prison.” Of note, the source did not know the type of drug seized from them.

The above-mentioned execution has not yet been announced by Iranian media or authorities. 

Out of the 110 people who were executed in the first half of 2019, nine were sentenced to death for drug-related charges.

Source: Iran Human Rights, Staff, October 19-25, 2019


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