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An Eye for an Eye

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An Iranian woman, blinded and disfigured by a man who threw acid into her face, forgave her attacker Sunday before a doctor was about to put several drops of acid in one of his eyes in court-ordered retribution.

Ameneh Bahrami was asked what she wanted as the man waited on his knees and wept.

"What do you want to do now?" the doctor asked the 34-year-old woman, whose face was destroyed in the 2004 attack.

"I forgave him, I forgave him," she responded, asking the doctor to spare him at the last minute in a dramatic scene broadcast on Iran's state television.

Bahrami lost her sight and suffered horrific burns to her face, scalp and body in the attack, carried out by a man who was angered that she refused his marriage proposal.

"It is best to pardon when you are in a position of power," Bahrami said in explaining her decision Sunday to spare him.

Her attacker, Majid Movahedi, said Bahrami was "very generous."
Seeking financial compensation for medical treatment

The scene is a far cry from Bahrami's reaction a few years ago after the court handed down the sentence in November 2008. She told a radio station in Spain, where she travelled for medical treatment after the attack, that she was happy with the ruling.

"I am not doing this out of revenge, but rather so that the suffering I went through is not repeated," she said in that March 2009 interview.

The court ruling had allowed Bahrami to have a doctor pour a few drops of the corrosive chemical in one of Movahedi's eyes as retribution based on the Islamic law system of "qisas," or eye-for-an-eye retribution.

After undergoing treatment in Barcelona, Bahrami initially recovered 40 per cent of the vision in one eye, but she later lost all her sight.

Tehran prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dowlatabadi said Movahedi would remain in jail until a court decides on an alternative punishment, according to Iran's ISNA news agency.

He said Bahrami has sought financial compensation from her attacker for the cost of treating her injuries.

There have been several other acid attacks on women in Iran. Last week, a young woman died after a man poured acid on her face for rejecting his marriage proposal. Her attacker remains at large.

Amnesty International criticized the Iranian law that allows victims of such attacks to deliberately blind the assailants under medical supervision. In a statement Sunday, the rights group said the practice was a cruel punishment that amounts to torture.

jesus

... makes the whole world blind

/cliche

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Originally Posted by RRxtar (Post 7530101)

jesus

He can heal them all

i think some crimes deserve an eye for an eye punishment. like for examplle the guy who butchered his ex wife in surrey this past week
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Robert Picton should be grinded up and fed to the pigs 49 times
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Reading news from the middle east is like reading news from 2000 years ago.

Mercy just ensures this will happen again. Let those fuckers burn to show people this is not acceptable in any society.

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Originally Posted by SkinnyPupp (Post 7530637)

Reading news from the middle east is like reading news from 2000 years ago.

Indeed.. but I'm not sure what side of the fence you're on with this one.

Is cruel to punish your attacker? Maybe.. But is it necessary? Absolutely.

I think that when a society is SO lenient and does not offer any sort of punishment, or the punishment is so lightweight .. that within it self is a HUGE crime and offense.

Where's our pro call of duty player that just killed 81 people.. oh yea, watching him self on a 40" screen HD TV in a very comfortable setting.
The prison there looks amazing .. better than some homes in many parts of the world.. so what sort of justice is that..

If it were up to me, I cannot hide it.. I will be honest. I would gladly make each and every offender pay. If the offense is stealing food.. I'd give the man some food so he never has to steal again. If the man rapes a child and kills a mother... unrelenting torture for (I'm being serious here) at least 20 years of his life. Keep him alive by all means and then after the 20 year ordeal, rape him with something, then slowly gut him so he can watch it all and then in the end piss on him and kill him by making him eat his feces and IV some urine into his blood stream. That is justice whether we like it or not. It's barbaric in some peoples eyes.. but the most barbaric thing to me is letting assholes get away with shit.

If I was that woman, I would not have forgiven my attacker.