Amputation: A Manifestation of the Inhuman Brutality of Iran’s Anti-Human Regime Against Non-Persian Nations

Ahwaz Human Rights Center – United Kingdom

Amputation: A Manifestation of the Inhuman Brutality of Iran’s Anti-Human Regime Against Non-Persian Nations

While the world’s attention is fixated on wars and international crises, the Iranian regime continues, under the deafening silence of global media, to carry out barbaric sentences such as amputation — punishments that reflect the deeply oppressive, racist, and inhumane nature of this regime.

In its latest judicial atrocity, on July 30, 2025 (9 Mordad 1404), the sentence of amputating four fingers from the right hands of three prisoners — Hadi Rostami, Mehdi Sharifian, and Mehdi Shahivand — was carried out at Urmia Central Prison.

And the tragedy continues…

At present, at least two other Kurdish prisoners, Kasra Karami (41) and Morteza Esmaeilian (44), remain incarcerated in the prisons of Urmia and Tabriz under the same inhuman sentence — awaiting the day when their hands are taken from them.

The question is:

Why must the non-Persian nations in Iran be so impoverished that they are forced to steal to survive?
When there are no jobs, no right to education, no permission to speak their mother tongue, no security to practice their religion or preserve their culture — what are these nations supposed to do?
Do they have any option left but to break unjust laws in order to keep themselves and their families alive?

In Kurdistan, the catastrophe is even deeper. Kurdish youth carry heavy loads as kolbars across dangerous mountain passes, braving snow and fire, just to feed their families. And what is the regime’s response to this struggle for bread?
Bullets.
They are gunned down by security forces, with no investigation, no justice — nothing but silence.

In occupied Ahwaz, the Arab nation — though sitting atop vast oil and gas wealth — is deprived of the most basic economic and human rights.
Absolute poverty, thirst, unemployment, and mass arrests are the daily reality for Ahwazi Arabs.
If this isn’t occupation and looting, what is?

In Balochistan, dozens of young Baloch are killed by gunfire every year, because the regime has left them no employment, and any effort to earn income is branded as “smuggling.”
They risk their lives at the borders, not by choice — but out of sheer necessity.

This is nothing less than the systematic hostage-taking of non-Persian nations.
This is the use of law as a weapon — to punish identity, to kill language, faith, ethnicity, and human dignity.

Ahwaz Human Rights Center – UK asks the international community:

When someone has no option left to stay alive…
When being Arab, Kurdish, Baloch or Turk means being invisible…
Can we still speak of law, justice, or human rights under the criminal regime of Iran?

We call for:

The immediate halt to inhuman punishments such as amputation, flogging, and execution

Urgent and independent review of judicial cases sentenced in unfair courts

An end to linguistic, economic, and religious apartheid against non-Persian nations

International pressure to hold the Iranian regime accountable for systematic human rights violations

The immediate release of all political and religious prisoners

31 July 2025 / 9 Mordad 1404
Ahwaz Human Rights Center – United Kingdom