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Iran to amputate man's hand for shop raid

An Iranian judge has ordered the amputation of the hand of a man who confessed to robbing a sweet shop, local media reported today.

Iran's semi-official Fars news agency said the chief judge of a Tehran court also sentenced the 21-year-old man, who was not identified, to a year in jail and ordered him to return the stolen items.

The ruling comes days after Iranian authorities amputated the hand of another man convicted of theft in the north-eastern city of Mashhad.

While Iran's hard-line judiciary follows a strict interpretation of Islamic law, enforcement of punishments such as amputation are rare.

Iranian authorities occasionally issue harsh rulings in an effort to stem the spread of corruption and disorder.

Critics, however, say amputations, public executions or floggings hurt Iran's international image and reflect badly on Islam.

Tehran has recently provoked an international outcry with the case of an Iranian woman who is sentenced to death by stoning for adultery.

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Andrew Farrugia

Oct 18th 2010, 18:20

Now why is it that i am not at all surprised by your anti-Western rhetoric?

Andrew Farrugia

Oct 18th 2010, 10:48

You don't mind living under such (Sharia) laws; well, this is a free country and no one is stopping you from going there. Our Constitution which binds every single person on these islands will protect me and others from ever having to endure such barbarities.

Robert Callus

Oct 17th 2010, 18:02

Though one wrong does not justify the other, what you are saying is true. The real reason for all this loss of life from the US and its allies can be found clearly in this book, starting from the coup in Chile, 1973

http://www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine

Msciberras

Oct 17th 2010, 11:18

I borg - no it doesn't. Iranian stats are unreliable & in any case do not cover crimes like widespread human rights abuses. Go easy on the caps dude

Robert Callus

Oct 17th 2010, 11:56

"IRAN HAS ONE OF THE LOWEST CRIME RATES IN THE WORLD"

Sure, and who do you think publishes the statistics? Also, what defines a crime? Is criticizing your govt a crime? In Iran probably it is. Here it's a Human Right. Iranians have to leave the country to commit a "crime" like writing this song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIP38eq-ywc

Andrew Farrugia

Oct 17th 2010, 13:11

Sure, Iran has one of the lowest crime rates in the world just because the criminals run the place. Does anyone remember how that 17 year old girl was brutally eliminated by the regime just because she happened to be at a protest march after the fraudulent presidential elections which allowed that detritus of human nature to remain in power?

Charles Grixti

Oct 17th 2010, 14:41

@I Borg

Lowest crimes in the world? Maybe you are forgetting to count the crimes being committed by the Iranian State and Imams against the Iranian people.

What about the legal concept of proportionality, that is the punishment has to be proportional to the crime? Such draconian laws take humanity back to the Dark Ages.

Andrew Farrugia

Oct 17th 2010, 13:07

Just for the record: i have never expressed any conscious or unconscious intention to spend good money (particularly as i happen not to possess oodles of it) to ever visit that brutal, inhuman place. You must have confused me with someone else.

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