Iran to blind criminal with acid in ’eye for an eye’ justice | World news

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  • Bon esprit // #Iran to blind criminal with acid in ’eye for an eye’ justice | World news | The Guardian
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/13/iran-blind-criminal-acid

    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.”