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

[Turborama]

Source: The Guardian

Retribution granted to woman who had acid thrown in her face by man she refused to marry
Saeed Kamali Dehghan | Friday 13 May 2011 18.56 BST

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."

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/13/iran-blind-criminal-acid

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More details at the link. (includes disturbing photo of Bahrami)