"...Amputation is the elegant word to describe an unjust, cruel practice and without call which does not leave any possibility of rehabilitation to the delinquents.

A cut down man carries the mark of his delinquency and will not be able to find employment any more. Handicapped with life and without pension for his "justified" handicap, the man will not be able "to be free" and "to turn over to work to nourish his family" as mollahs explainexplain it.

The operations are done without anaesthesia and with a kind of "small guillotine" which was developed in Great Britain.

A first flight is punished by the amputation of the four fingers of the right hand or by the amputation of the very whole right hand. A repetition is punished by the "cross amputation": section of the right hand and the left leg under the knee.

This form of amputation is a death sentence in a country like the republic of mollahs where 55% of the young, valid and graduate men are without employment..."

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