What do you think about this guys? I personally understand why in her tragic situation the woman would want such a sentence, but on the other hand, that sentence will not bring her eyes back. Very difficult issue; every culture deals with it according to its own laws, which I respect.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/28/iran-acid-attack-sharia-law
A man who blinded a woman in an
acid attack after she spurned his marriage proposals has been sentenced
to the same punishment, in a literal application of Iran's sharia
eye-for-an-eye laws.
In a highly unusual judgment, Tehran
province criminal court ordered Majid Movahedi, 27, to be blinded in
both eyes from drops of acid in response to a plea from his victim,
Ameneh Bahrami.
The punishment is legal under the sharia code
of qisas, which allows retribution for violent crimes. The court also
ordered Movahedi to pay compensation to the victim.
Bahrami was
left horrifically disfigured after Movahedi threw a jar of acid in her
face as she walked home from work in a busy Tehran neighbourhood in
October 2004. She had previously complained to police about being
threatened and harassed by Movahedi, who she had known while they were
both university students, but had been told no action could be taken.
Since
the attack, Bahrami has undergone 17 operations, some by surgeons in
Spain, in an unsuccessful attempt to reconstruct her face. Her injuries
led to the loss of one eye and left her blind in the other. The Iranian
government has paid £22,500 towards her treatment.
Testifying in
Movahedi's presence, she told the court that she wanted "to inflict the
same life on him that he inflicted on me". Asked by the judge if she
wanted Movahedi's face to be splashed with acid, she replied: "That is
impossible and horrific. Just drip 20 drops of acid in his eyes so he
can realise what pain I am undergoing."
Bahrami, an electronics
graduate who worked for a medical engineering company before the
attack, said Movahedi's family had asked her to marry him several
times, but she had refused. Movahedi later threatened to kill her, she
said, after saying that he had built his dreams around her.
Moments
before the attack, she sensed she was being followed and tried to get
away. But Movahedi caught up with her and stepped in front of her,
before throwing acid in her face, leaving her screaming in pain.
Movahedi
said he decided to attack Bahrami after she told him she had married
someone else, and pleaded with him to leave her alone.
"I
decided to splash acid on her face so her husband would leave her and I
could have her," he told the court. He said he had earlier contemplated
suicide.
Asked if he would still be prepared to marry Bahrami despite her injuries, Movahedi replied: "Yes. I love her."
Tehran's
deputy public prosecutor, Mahmoud Salarkia, said the publicity
surrounding the case would deter future acid attacks. "If this sentence
is properly publicised in the media, it will stop the repetition of
such incidents," he told the news website Tabnak. "Awareness of the
punishment has a huge deterrent effect in stopping social crimes."
the instant karma law as some call it
like gandhi said - it will definitely make the world go blind. or in this case also teethless (toothless).
sooo sad if you ask my opinion
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