Iranian prisoner moments before he had four of his fingers cut off after being accused of stealing five sheep from a farm owned by a member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps

Photograph shows an Iranian prisoner moments before he had four of his fingers cut off after being accused of stealing five sheep from a farm owned by a member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. The man denied the charges. 

The prisoner was identified only as Yousef T. The amputation of his fingers was carried out in the summer of 2023 at the central prison in Qom, central Iran.

An Iranian prisoner has had four of his fingers amputated after being accused of stealing five sheep from a farm owned by a member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, a charge the man denies.

The Iran Human Rights organization said the sentence to cut off four fingers from the hand of a 34-year-old prisoner, identified only as Yousef T., was carried out last summer in the central prison of Qom, central Iran. It was not previously reported.

According to an informed source cited by the organization, Yousef T. insisted on his innocence throughout the 13 months he was detained in prison before the sentence was carried out. The man was a builder working at the farm when he was accused.

"Amputating a man's fingers for the alleged theft of a few sheep by a corrupt regime whose officials compete in billion-dollar thefts and embezzlement, demonstrates the utmost cruelty and immorality of this system,"

said Mahmud Amiri Moghadam,