Iranian Sharia Police Parade Some Thieves Around In A Pickup Truck, Beat Them In Front Of Crowd

Disciplinary Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran paraded a couple of thieves in the back of a pickup truck while assaulting them in front of an angered mob.

It is not clear what the men were accused of stealing, or even if they are guilty.

Earlier this week, Fox News reported Iran has reportedly sentenced four men, who were tried in juvenile court, to have their fingers amputated for stealing, a brutal punishment still on the books under the country's Islamic penal code.

According to the London-based Iran International, the three minors -- Hadi Rostami, Mehdi Sharafian, Kasra Karami and Mehdi Shahivand -- lost their appeals in the Iranian Supreme Court this week and were subsequently ordered to have four fingers severed from their right hands. The boys were initially tried last November on charges of four counts of robbery in the northern city of Urmia and have remained behind bars ever since.

A June report released by the Iran Human Rights Monitor (IRM) underscored that Rostami, Karami, Sharafian and Shahivand claimed that they were forced to confess under torture, and one of the prisoners -- Rostami -- was in a dire health condition in the Central Prison of Urmia and had cut his wrists in protest of the upholding of his sentence earlier this year.

"Article 278 of the Islamic Punishment Law, the four fingers of their right hands will be cut off for four counts of robbery," IRM noted. "The fingers must be cut off from the bottom, leaving only the palm and the thumb. According to Article 667 of the same law, they were also ordered to return the stolen goods."