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HRANA News Agency – Although Hassan Ark (Ali Hajabulu) suffers from back disease the authorities of Tabriz prison are insisting on flogging him which is a part of his former sentence.

HRANA News Agency - The fingers of a prisoner who is charged to robbery, amputated.

Iran Human Rights - January 24: Iranian authorities’ campaign of conducting public, medieval punishments continues. A state-run Iranian news agency reported that the amputation sentence of a prisoner was carried out in public today in the city of Shiraz (southern Iran).

The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran - Four fingers of two individuals convicted of theft were amputated in public earlier this week in Yazd Province in Iran. “This punishment was carried out publicly in order to teach a lesson to criminals,” Head of the Yazd Province Judiciary Gholamhossein Heydari said at a Crime and Social Ills Prevention Conference, the semi-official Iranian Student’s News Agency (ISNA) reported on November 13.

Freedom Messenger - In the past few days, the flogging sentence of a number of political prisoners in cellblock 350 in Evin Prison was carried out. According to reports, the flogging of Kamyar Iazi, who is a doctor, was to the extent that his body bled as a result.

Persianbanoo - Step by step escalation of extremely harsh treatment of the political prisoners in Evin prison continued with lashing of some of the political prisoners and summoning to prison the people whose sentences were issued long ago, entered a new phase during Ghadr nights in Ramadan (The assassination of Imam Ali that is mourned by the Shiits).

Freedom Messenger - A video clip recently uploaded to YouTube shows a young Iranian man being publicly whipped as punishment for drinking alcohol.

GVF — An Iranian cartoonist has been sentenced to flogging after depicting a member of parliament in a local publication.