[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Iranian authorities are preparing to chop off the fingers from the hands of three men convicted of robbery as part of their horrific punishment.
Hadi Rostami, Mehdi Sharfian and Mehdi Shahivand, who are being held in Urumieh Central prison, West Azerbaijan province, are waiting to undergo the 'cruel and irreversible' punishment of finger amputation as early as April 11, human rights organisation Amnesty International said today.
All three men were arrested in August 2017 and convicted of robbery in 2019 after a 'grossly unfair trial', in which the court sentenced them to have four fingers on their right hands completely cut off.
The men were reportedly denied access to lawyers and courts relied on forced 'confessions', which saw all three get beaten, kicked and flogged.
Rostami's hand was broken and interrogators threatened to rape Shahivand to get confessions out of them, which they have since retracted.
Since getting the gruesome sentence, all three have gone on multiple hunger strikes in prison to protest the inhumane conditions they have been subjected to, as well as their conviction.
In February 2021, Rostami was further tortured after Iranian authorities carried out a flogging sentence of 60 lashes for 'disrupting prison order' after he went on hunger strike. He has also attempted suicide several times, Amnesty said. 
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