No, I am not exaggerating. Click the pic, go to "last," and read backwards.
If you are not informed about this stuff, you will be made sick. If you are informed, you will be made mad, all over again.
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.
That's it! I am now convinced that these heinous acts can only become a memory of history if the UN gets involved and ban's the ownership of weapons.
The truth is now much easier to see that these act's of human degradation can only be stifled if guns are banned. /s
No, I am not exaggerating. Click the pic, go to "last," and read backwards.
If you are not informed about this stuff, you will be made sick. If you are informed, you will be made mad, all over again.
'necks go back to DU
you're not welcome in any civilized gathering of republicans and your infiltration of FR is a transparent sabotage of its credibility and worth
Did your reply #43 get cut in half accidently? Who was it addressed to?
Iranians are not Arabs.
It is, but don't say that too loudly on FR....
I've been living and working in the Middle East for about a year and a half now, and believe me, where I am, I hear a lot about Iran....none of it good or positive.
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.
It depends on their motivation... The rulers of Iran are extremely motivated by their hatred of Israel.
Mark
I actually do not have a problem with this.
Well, heck, he denies meaning to blind the other guy with the acid, why should he have to pay for the crime? /sarcasm
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