Iran to blind criminal with acid in 'eye for an eye' justice
The Guardian / Saeed Kamali Dehghan
14-May-2011 (one comment)


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.

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."

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Absolutely no one can possibly imagine the pain and suffering which Ameneh has been going though during the last several years and whilst it is easy for me to pontificate that 'Two Wrong Don't Make A Right', I am not Ameneh and I have no right to condemn her actions. However,  I hope Ameneh will do what she believes is right. If she participates in the punishment of her attacker then I hope one day she does not regret her decision and it does not stain her conscience a few years to come when her anger will subside. The blinding of her attacker may give her grim satisfaction in the short term but in a few years from now she may realise that the action will not restore her eyesight or give back the missing years she has lost. I wish the very best for Ameneh and the beautiful person she still is.