Background:
Ameneh Bahrami (1978, Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian woman blinded in an acid attack. She became the focus of international controversy after demanding that her attacker, Majid Movahedi, be punished by being similarly blinded. The punishment is permissible under the Qisas principle of sharia law. After Bahrami rejected the romantic advances of Movahedi, a fellow student at the University of Tehran, he threw a bottle of acid in her face in October 2004. She subsequently underwent 17 surgeries in Spain, but remains disfigured. The Iranian government has paid £22,500 towards her treatment.
Bahrami testified against Movahedi at his trial. She informed the court that she desired "to inflict the same life on him that he inflicted on me". She requested that twenty drops of acid be dropped in his eyes. Tehran's deputy public prosecutor, Mahmoud Salarkia, defended the punishment. "If this sentence is properly publicised in the media, it will stop the repetition of such incidents," he said. "Awareness of the punishment has a huge deterrent effect in stopping social crimes."
However, human rights advocates have strongly criticized the punishment. The punishment was due to be carried out on April 15, 2009;Movahedi's appeal was rejected by the court. However, the punishment is yet to be carried out. The punishment was set to be carried out on 14 May 2011, but as per updated news, the punishment is postponed due to international pressure!
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These are some of my responses to the article in TIME "An Eye for an Eye: Iran's Blinding Justice System" Read the article here: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2071529,00.html?hpt=C2
Ameneh Bahrami (1978, Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian woman blinded in an acid attack. She became the focus of international controversy after demanding that her attacker, Majid Movahedi, be punished by being similarly blinded. The punishment is permissible under the Qisas principle of sharia law. After Bahrami rejected the romantic advances of Movahedi, a fellow student at the University of Tehran, he threw a bottle of acid in her face in October 2004. She subsequently underwent 17 surgeries in Spain, but remains disfigured. The Iranian government has paid £22,500 towards her treatment.
Bahrami testified against Movahedi at his trial. She informed the court that she desired "to inflict the same life on him that he inflicted on me". She requested that twenty drops of acid be dropped in his eyes. Tehran's deputy public prosecutor, Mahmoud Salarkia, defended the punishment. "If this sentence is properly publicised in the media, it will stop the repetition of such incidents," he said. "Awareness of the punishment has a huge deterrent effect in stopping social crimes."
However, human rights advocates have strongly criticized the punishment. The punishment was due to be carried out on April 15, 2009;Movahedi's appeal was rejected by the court. However, the punishment is yet to be carried out. The punishment was set to be carried out on 14 May 2011, but as per updated news, the punishment is postponed due to international pressure!
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These are some of my responses to the article in TIME "An Eye for an Eye: Iran's Blinding Justice System" Read the article here: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2071529,00.html?hpt=C2
This article is obviously biased!! the truth is that she has three choices according to Iran's justice system: "eye for an eye", forgiveness, and money compensation!! but she has repeatedly asked for the "eye for an eye" option.. I think this is actually a really just punishment.. why waste tax-payers money for this idiot's life in prison?? this method of punishment is excellent.. and the victim chooses.. so what is the problem?? just because u dont like iran's politics doesnt mean that u have to dislike everything about them.. in this case the justice system is actually pretty clever!!
These were my comments to CNN article: "(Human) Rights group urges Iran not to blind woman's attacker with acid" read here: http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/05/14/iran.acid.eyes/
When someone commits a crime like this, he no longer deserves the right to be called a HUMAN!! so "human rights" does NOT need to worry about this idiot and instead they should help the victim and come up with ways to prevent crimes like this from happening again to other innocent people.. otherwise they should start a new branch called "criminal rights" and then defend the rights of such animals!..
note: Whenever a person harms and hurts another person violently and brutally, that is when he/she does not deserve to be called HUMAN anymore...
The punishment should match the crime committed.. otherwise other idiots out there will think they can get away easily,, so why not commit the crime?:"oh, well..worst case scenario, i will go to jail for 2 years, but i can get revenge and destroy her life for ever.. so going to jail is worth it.. at least i know I have destroyed her life.."
Please think!!!!
I, agree with you!
ReplyDeleteit is a very very difficault and complicated issue to judge about it !
ReplyDeletein my opinion he does not deserves to live anymore .But we are not at that position to judge about this case . only god can deside about his future .
ReplyDeleteHe should be ordered to live with her!
ReplyDeleteSo we should call our own government unhuman. Rememeber all the suffering they cause the victims in Japan when they drop those atomic bombs.
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