Iran to blind criminal with acid in 'eye for an eye' justice

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Retribution granted to woman who had acid thrown in her face by man she refused to marry

In a literal application of the sharia law of an eye for an eye, Iran is ready for the first time to blind a man with acid, after he was found guilty of doing the same to a woman who refused to marry him.

Majid Movahedi, 30, is scheduled to be rendered unconscious in Tehran's judiciary hospital at noon on Saturday while Ameneh Bahrami, his victim, drops acid in both his eyes, her lawyer said.

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Ameneh Bahrami, who was blinded when a spurned suitor threw acid at her, asked for the same to be inflicted on him. Photograph: Lluis Gene/AFP​



Bahrami who had asked for an eye for an eye retribution in the court, was disfigured and blinded by Movahedi in 2004 when he threw a jar of acid in her face while she was returning home from work. "He was holding a red container in his hand. He looked into my eyes for a second and threw the contents of the red container into my face," she told the court in 2008.

According to Iranian media, Bahrami's lawyer, Ali Sarafi, has said: "A very good sentence has been given and an appropriate method has been adopted so that the convict will be blinded by few drops of acids in eyes after he is rendered unconscious."

In a highly publicised dossier in November 2008, a criminal court in Tehran ordered qisas (retribution) on Movahedi after he admitted throwing acid at Bahrami, and entitled her to blind him with acid. He was also required to pay compensation to the victim. Bahrami refused to accept the "blood money" and told the court: "Inflict the same life on him that he inflicted on me."

Iranian officials have endorsed the the sentence in the hope of halting an increase in the rate of acid attacks. But human rights activists have warned against an "inhumane" sentence.

The British Foreign Office urged Iran to halt the sentence. "The attack on Ameneh Bahrami in 2004 was a horrific crime," a spokesman said. "However, we are deeply concerned by reports that Majid Movahedi's sentence of being blinded by having acid dripped into his eyes may be carried out.

"The FCO calls on the Iranian authorities to commute this inhumane punishment to an appropriate sentence in line with Iran's international obligations and to cease the practice of corporal punishment for crimes."

Iranian media have reported that Movahedi will be blinded in both eyes but Bahrami, in an interview in 2009, said that the man would be blinded only in one eye because "each man is worth two women" under Iranian law.

"The person who did this deserves to go through the same suffering. Only this way will he understand my pain … my intention is to ask for the application of the law not just for revenge but also so that no other woman will have to go through this. It is to set an example," Bahrami was quoted by the Spanish newspaper ABC as saying.

Bahrami, who has an electronics degree and worked in a medical engineering company before the attack, moved to Spain with the help of the Iranian government where she has undergone a series of unsuccessful operations. She briefly recovered half vision in her right eye in 2007 but an infection blinded her again.

Bahrami has recently published a book in Germany, Eye for an Eye, based on her personal life and her suffering since she was blinded.

In recent months, human rights organisations have expressed alarm over the unprecedented increase of capital punishment in Iran, which last year executed more people than any other country apart from China.





By Saeed Kamali Dehghan
Iran to blind criminal with acid in 'eye for an eye' justice | World news | The Guardian
 
I'm in two minds on this, my first reaction is "Good, let him have it" but when I think rationally about it it's just medieval and barbaric
 
I am the same. Society is in the hands of violent criminals in the western world. There is many instances where the punishment dosent fit the crime in england, especially the cost of keeping the worst locked up.
 
Yes it is medieval and barbaric but i'm still for it.

It's not about justice it's about revenge.

No such thing as justice in my book it's all about revenge, he thought it was ok to throw acid in her face, at least he will be sedated when/if it happens that is more than can be said for his victim.
 
Yes it is medieval and barbaric but i'm still for it.

It's not about justice it's about revenge.

No such thing as justice in my book it's all about revenge, he thought it was ok to throw acid in her face, at least he will be sedated when/if it happens that is more than can be said for his victim.
thinking of it .. maybe ppl might learn ,,as said be its paypack and at least he wont feel it
 
he should feel it the victim did. also fair play its a good message to send out "Do unto others as you would have others do unto you" maybe the world would be a better place if people though about stuff before they did it.
 
We deffo need some of these back here, anyone up for ridding the prisons from pedos and murderers?
 
It can be considered as punishment but the most important thing is to make others think twice before do anything like that.

Imagine if they punish a rapist of pedophile instead of sending them to prison for a short while, others think twice before doing anything like that.
 
Imagine if they punish a rapist of pedophile instead of sending them to prison for a short while, others think twice before doing anything like that.

are you serious? that would be a reward to them they would get off on being violated. just kill them instead
 
It can be considered as punishment but the most important thing is to make others think twice before do anything like that.

Imagine if they punish a rapist of pedophile instead of sending them to prison for a short while, others think twice before doing anything like that.



well this is the thing,

they guy who did this knew he could get severely punished for his crime, but he still did it....

so the deterrent part of the punishment hasn't worked........

i maybe going soft in my old age, but pouring acid in someones eyes as a punishment just doesn't sit right with me......
 
Ah just blind the CNUT and chop his cock off probably a waste of organs anyway.

Fancy doing that because a woman wouldnt marry him reminds me of that Katie Piper Documentry so sad.

Is it just me but It always seems to be Indian are Asian men etc that let women screw them up. Oh sorry yeh and we brits do have our fair share like that nutta that lived round my corner Roul Moat he went berserk over a woman :Fish:
 
Ah just blind the CNUT and chop his cock off probably a waste of organs anyway.

Fancy doing that because a woman wouldnt marry him reminds me of that Katie Piper Documentry so sad.

Is it just me but It always seems to be Indian are Asian men etc that let women screw them up. Oh sorry yeh and we brits do have our fair share like that nutta that lived round my corner Roul Moat he went berserk over a woman :Fish:


...it's just you.
 
why knock him out let him feel the pain or is that just a bit to far:banana:
 
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