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Iran Focus
 Tehran, Iran,
Nov. 29 – Iran’s Islamic
judiciary cut off the right hand and the left foot of a prisoner in the
volatile town of Ahwaz,
southwest Iran,
state-run dailies reported Tuesday.
The individual was identified only as Adel A. and had been charged with
armed robbery. An Islamic court in the town of Mahshahr handed
down the sentence of amputation of Adel’s right hand and left foot in
public.
Iran’s State Supreme Court
upheld the sentence, which was carried out inside Karoon
Prison in Ahwaz.
Iran’s
hard-line judiciary often label anti-government
activists as regular criminals.
Ahwaz, the capital of the Arab-dominated province of Khuzestan, has been a hotbed of
unremitting anti-government protests since the start of the year.
Dozens of people were reportedly killed in week-long clashes between mainly
ethnic Arab protesters and security forces in Ahwaz and several other cities in Khuzistan province in April.
Tehran has accused Britain
and Canada of
involvement in a series of bombings in the province prior to Iran’s
presidential elections in June.
The strategic area holds much of Iran’s oilfields.
Iran’s
Islamic penal system regularly practices centuries-old sentences for petty
crimes, such as amputation of limbs, eye gouging, stoning to death, and
throwing prisoners off a cliff in a sac.
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