Acid blinding sentence of Iranian man postponed
The Daily Telegraph / The Daily Telegraph
14-May-2011 (one comment)


The procedure was planned for Tehran at midday on Saturday in the presence of Ameneh Bahrami, the young woman he attacked and blinded, under a sentence called qesas (retribution in kind) imposed by a court in 2009.

She had demanded that the blinding be carried out after her university classmate Majid Movahedi threw a bucket of acid over her when she spurned his repeated offers of marriage. The punishment had been due to be carried out at the judiciary hospital in Tehran, under the supervision of a doctor and with representatives of the coroners' office and the prosecution present.

Miss Bahrami, who now lives in Spain, was 24 when she first met Mr Movahedi in Iran.

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Acid blinding sentence of Iranian man postponed

by Simorgh5555 on Sat May 14, 2011 10:04 AM PDT

I welcome this decision but if it the culprit was a woman would the punishment have been postponed? How ironic that  human rights campaigners have to fight tooth and nail to postpone the death sentence against Sakineh Ashtiani convicted on spurious evidence and yet the IR easily grants compassion towards a man whose crime is without doubt. 

 



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