The Mojahedin Command inside Iran reported that the spine-chilling document is a video recording which shows the henchmen of the mullahs' regime gouging out the eyes of a prisoner and amputating the hands of several individuals in Tehran's Qasr Prison during Khomeini's rule. The amputations were carried out with a specially-designed machine.
The implementation of inhuman punishments such as stoning to death, the gouging out of eyes and the amputation of hands have continued under Khatami. The state-owned Qods daily reported on October 17, 1999, that a prisoners' eyes had been gouged out. Kayhan reported on June 22, 1999, that the hands of four persons had been amputated. Qods reported on June 23 that the hands of 15 prisoners had been amputated. The daily Salaam announced the amputation of the hands of three persons on July 5, 1999, and Qods reported on January 20, 2000, that the hands of 7 persons were amputated.
In 1997, after the Mojahedin made available to the world public opinion and international human rights authorities a video recording showing the stoning to death of several prisoners in Iran, Khatami's Islamic Guidance Minister Ataollah Mohajerani demanded that such punishments, which he called "divine retributions," be carried out in front of limited crowds and no filming be allowed.
The Mojahedin Command inside Iran pointed out that on February 3, 1985, Khomeini said: "We need a religious ruler who would cut off hands, flog, stone to death... Human life must be made secure through the implementation of the law of retributions."
People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran
February 28, 2000
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