By Hollie McKay
| February 28, 2021 | 4:16pm EST
(Illustrative photo by Giles Clarke/Getty Images)
(CNSNews.com) – It is the stuff of nightmares.
Young men whose healthy limbs are severed by their very own government based on arbitrary and unproven crimes, rendering them a life of even more poverty in the realms of the anguished and disabled.
This is modern-day Iran, wrapped in the markers of the medieval.
“People whose limbs are amputated are normal people who are hungry and are stealing something for their personal need. It is really beyond belief that any government can take such measures to punish poor people like them, who have no other way of providing for themselves and their families,” noted Sadeq Saba, editor at Iran International TV.