Posted on 06/11/2005 12:05:43 AM PDT by freedom44
Tehran, Jun. 10 Irans State Supreme Court has upheld a sentence for a young mans 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 Irans Islamic law.
The original court ordered for acid to be sprayed on Vahids 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 Vahids 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 Vahids lawyer is presently negotiating with Gholam-Hosseins 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.
I'll bet this guy won't be a repeat offender.
Thank you for the nighmare tonight.
Yet another ringing endorsement for the timeless spiritual majesty and glory that is Islam! CELEBRATE DIVERSITY! < /sarcasm>
IranFocus :^O
Irans State Supreme Court has upheld a sentence for a young mans eyes to be gouged out and sprayed with acid, for blinding another man
There are some things they do a whole lot
better than we do and this is one of em.
I thought 'an eye for an eye' was from the First Testament NOT The Koran.
A large part of the Koran is a rip-off of the Old Testament.
Paging Amnesty International... please pick up the white courtesy phone....
Oh dear lord. That is horrendous. Is that the guy in the story?
Were these pictures from the Iranian Penal Guide for correction staff members?
At leat this teenage will never 'see' the error of his ways.
"A large part of the Koran is a rip-off of the Old Testament."
An argument to extend the period of copyright protection?
\ That's not completely true. Some of the same stories are told, but as if they are remembered stories, not transcriptions.
It's like a religion... only for animals, instead of people.
How can a country such as this continue to exist in the 21st century? And why would we ever want to have anything to do with it? I'll be expecting to hear cries of outrage from the rest of the world.....just as soon as they finish working us over for abusing the Koran.
Maybe Sean Penn can attend, and can compare Iran favorably to the USA. "Like, we have the death penalty too, dude, so we have no reason to feel superior."
I can write his article already.
Well how very considerate of Children they are. The UN should put them on the Human Rights Council.
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