Iranian woman blinded by acid attack pardons assailant as he faces same fate
"An eye for an eye"
Ameneh Bahrami withdrew hours before surgeons willing to pay the blind with acid
Blind woman with acid in Iran has forgiven her attacker, a man who was expected to lose sight in an eye for an eye punishment on Sunday.
Majid Movahedi, 30, was transferred to a hospital in Tehran judiciary to be blinded with acid after being unconscious, but Ameneh Bahrami, his victim was spared at the last minute, semi-official Iranian ISNA news agency reported.
Judicial
Iran had given the green light to the administration of retributive punishment, which was the first blind of a convict in the country, but groups of human rights everywhere the world asked Bahrami, who had asked for the eyes
aa eyes for a justice court, to forgive him.Bahrami, who refused to marry Movahedi, was disfigured and blinded when he threw a bottle of acid on her face as she was returning home after work in 2004.
"I feel good. I am glad that I forgave him," I have told ISNA. "For seven years I tried to get compensation and to prove that the punishment for the acid attack is a punishment, but today I decided to forgive him. It was my right, but in the future, the next victim could not do it. "
Sunday, Bahrami asked for financial compensation instead of blinding Movahedi, an option she had refused to consider.
Speaking to ISNA, Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi, Tehran prosecutor confirmed that he had forgiven Movahedi and Bahrami describes its action as an "act of courage."
Sharia law of Islam allows
"He was holding a red cup in hand. I looked into his eyes for a second and threw the contents of the pack on my face red," he told the court in in 2008.
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