Iran convicts facing 'abhorrent' finger amputation: activists
Eight Iranian men convicted of theft are in imminent risk of having their fingers cut off, campaign groups warned on Friday, urging global action to halt the “inhuman” punishment.
All eight men are being held in the Greater Tehran prison waiting for their fingers on one hand to be amputated, the Abdorrahman Boroumand Center for Human Rights in Iran (ABC) and Amnesty International said in separate statements.
Three of them had been transferred from Orumiyeh prison in northwestern Iran in May specifically for the amputation, they said.
