Thief has fingers amputated in Iran

TEHRAN, June 28 (AFP) - A convicted thief has had the fingers of one hand cut off in public in the town of Najafabad in central Iran, Kayhan newspaper reported Sunday.

Mohammad-Reza Ghahremani, originally from Abadan in the southwest of the country, was convicted of 13 counts of theft, the newspaper said.

He had the fingers cut off on one hand, in accordance with Sharia, or Islamic law, in Iran, in a public punishment which followed Friday prayers, Kayhan said.

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