Iranian man sentenced to have drops of acid poured onto his face for blinding his lover's husband

[meegbear]

An Iranian man who blinded his lover's husband is to suffer a similar fate in a tit-for-tat sentencing - by having acid poured into his eye.

Iran’s Islamic code allows for ‘an eye-for-an-eye, a tooth-for-a-tooth’ retribution - known as 'qisas' - in cases of violent crime.

The convict, named only as Mojtaba, threw acid in the face of his rival Alireza, a taxi driver, after an illicit affair with the victim’s wife, Mojdeh.

All three are 25 and live in Qom, Iran’s clerical nerve centre 60 miles south of the capital, Tehran.

The grotesque penalty was passed by a lower court and upheld by Iran’s supreme court, a government daily, Iran, reported this weekend.

The Qom prosecutor, Mostafa Barzegar Ganji, said the victim had used his right to qisas.

'We have asked for forensic specialists to oversee the blinding of the convict,' he added.

Extreme punishments can be waived if the victim chooses to accept 'blood money' in reparation, and ‘eye for eye’ punishments are rarely carried out.

Similarly in capital cases, there have been several instances in Iran and Saudi Arabia where a convicted murderer’s life has been spared at the eleventh hour when their victim’s family has shown mercy.

Qisas sentences infuriate local reformists and are invariably branded as an 'abhorrent' form of 'judicial torture' by international human rights groups.

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1337957/Eye-eye-Iranian-man-sentenced-drops-acid-poured-face-blinding-lovers-husband.html#ixzz18625Elbn

[Bunny]

1. I wonder what happened to his wife.

She's probably been stoned to death.

[CanonRay]

2. Nothing like 12th Century Justice

[Turbineguy]

3. You can say what you want about Shah Reza Pachlavi

but they didn't have this shit.

[dipsydoodle]

6. No - then they had SAVAK trained by the both the CIA and Mossad.

SAVAK simply killed people which was more than an eye for eye.

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[Iggo]

5. On't-day orget-fay the O-nay U-tray Otsman-scay ool-pay.

I got 10.

[Upton]

7. You reap what you sow..

if this dude didn't want such a sentence, perhaps he should have thought of that before throwing acid in the face of another..