with acid for a man who blinded his lover’s husband, under the Islamic “eye-for-an-eye” justice code, a government daily said Saturday.
The convict, identified only as Mojtaba, 25, threw acid in the face of Alireza, 25, a taxi-driver in Qom, after Mojtaba had an “illicit affair” with the victim’s wife, Mojdeh, also 25, said the daily Iran.
The Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling that Mojtaba be blinded with drops of acid, in line with the Islamic justice code of qasas, which allows eye-for-an-eye retribution, in this case literally.
Qom prosecutor Mostafa Barzegar Ganji said the victim had exercized his right to qasas. “We have asked for forensic specialists to oversee the blinding of the convict,” he said.
A number of acid attacks have been reported in Iran over the years. In February 2009, for example, Majid Movahedi was sentenced to be blinded in both eyes for having hurled acid in the face of a university classmate, Ameneh Bahrami, who refused his marriage proposal.
Acid attacks largely from forsaken love.
