Posted on 06/11/2005 12:05:43 AM PDT by freedom44
Tehran, Jun. 10 – Iran’s State Supreme Court has upheld a sentence for a young man’s eyes to be gouged out and sprayed with acid, for blinding another man at the age of 16 some 12 years ago.
The defendant, only identified by his first name Vahid, was convicted of deliberately pouring acid on the face of another individual by the name of Gholam-Hossein while he worked as a labourer in Tehran when he was 16 years old, though he maintained throughout the trial that the attack was not intentional and that he had only meant to threaten the man because of an earlier scuffle. He said that the lid of the battery which the acid was in accidentally opened.
The phrase “An eye for an eye” is very stringently adhered to in Iran’s Islamic law.
The original court ordered for acid to be sprayed on Vahid’s face as retribution for his actions, though his lawyer appealed the decision on the grounds that the rest of his face would also be damaged from the acid.
A second court rejected the appeal and instead ordered for Vahid’s eyes to be first gouged out by a “qualified surgeon” and then sprayed with acid “so as not to damage the face itself”.
The State Supreme Court has ruled for authorities to go ahead with carrying out the punishment, though Vahid’s lawyer is presently negotiating with Gholam-Hossein’s family to give clemency to his defendant. Vahid has been requested to pay 3 billion Rials ($300,000) as blood-money to forego the punishment however he has stated that he does not have such an amount of money.
Under Iranian law, boys above the age of fifteen are considered as adults and could be convicted of capital offences. Under increasing international pressure for violations of the rights of the child, the Iranian regime keeps convicted children in juvenile prisons and issues court verdicts only after they turn 18 so as to carry out sentences that would have be handed out if the defendants were adults.
"How can a country such as this continue to exist in the 21st century?"
If you look at what man did in the 20th Century, it is hard to argue that we are becoming more civilized.
Stalin, Hitler and Chiang Kai-shek would impress even Ivan the Terrible and Tinogen Genghis Kahn.
I wonder if RUTH BADER GINSBERG of the SCOTUS will look at this decision as she loves to look to foreign laws to declare what is "constitutional" for the US.
Iran asked for this crap back in 79 with their "revolution". Let them reap what they sow.
Hopefully the trigger-happy mods wont pull that one. A very disturbing (but NEEDED) pic of reality when people demand Islam.
And we asked for segregation and the KKK - you ask for the same now a days in the US? It's so pathetic that you point fingers for an ideology accepted so long ago.
Why do you persist in making such moronic remarks about Iran? We have explained reality to you many, many times.
Put down the bottle and go to bed.
So how does that make the original comment in any way "not completely true"?
Relax and be happy.
These people soon will have the atom bomb.
You forgot Mao.
"These people soon will have the atom bomb."
I doubt it. A friend of mine ran a training course in Saudi Arabia on how to off load an oil tanker.
The course was intended to last three months. One year later, not one student had passed.
A friend of his sold a huge computer system to a major Saudi hospital .
Three years later he returned to see how they were doing. They had never tured it on but said they were very happy with the system.
When told it was now outdated, they placed a three million dollar for a new system. It too was never used but impressed visitors.
I doubt we have much to worry about with Iran getting the A -Bomb.
The majority of the Iranians wanting western-friendly reforms are too young to remember 1979 or were not even born. They renounce this evil, horrendous regime and it is incumbent upon Americans to stand with them.
"You forgot Mao."
I know this comment will draw fire but I feel that Mao's attrocities were more the result of stupidity than pure evil.
The Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution killed millions as a result of their failure but the intent was not such.
Chiang Kai-shek, in contrast, murdered an estimated ten million people. In Shanghai, he had tens of thousand beheaded and their heads (in open sided wooden boxes) hung in bunches from every lamp post in the city. I have seen a picture of this and it is quite shocking.
I am no fan of Mao (under statement) but in this case I must admit he was not as great a monster as Chiang.
Best wishes,
David
if the victim of the crime would have been a jew or christian american, they would have dedicated a new mosque to the perpetrator...
Ditto. We could use a little of that form of justice here, especially with the recent spat of child abduction/murders in Florida.
Where is the most dangerous place for a child.'
The mother's womb, Fl or never never land?
If Iranians were Arabs I would agree with you, but they are not. They're Persians.
I think sooner or later they are going to throw off the Mullah's yoke. I hope sooner, but I admit it is taking longer than I expected.
David Lane is no longer with us...
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