Eleventh-hour reprieve for Iranian man sentenced to have acid injected into his eyes by woman he blinded

By DENNIS NEWSON

Last updated at 1:28 PM on 14th May 2011

• Authorities postpone decision to allow woman to inject acid into her attacker’s eye
• She is still determined to exact revenge for bus stop attack despite death threats
  
• His family beg for forgiveness ahead of sentence

In an 11th hour decision Iran has postponed blinding a convicted man who threw acid in the face of a woman because she would not marry him.

A court sentenced Majid Mohavedi to be blinded in both eyes for throwing acid into the face of 32-year-old Ameneh Bahramiy.

Under Iran’s Islamic law, imposed since the 1979 Islamic revolution – an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth – it is permitted in cases where bodily injuries are inflicted.

Twisted: Majid Movahedi had stalked Ameneh before his heinous crime

Mohavedi was convicted after he threw acid at Bahrami’s face, blinding the then 24-year-old electronics graduate in both eyes.

Movahedi attacked her at a bus-stop in 2004 after he had begged her in vain to marry him.

For months he had stalked her and she was left blind and disfigured. She later underwent 19 operations.

The court awarded her £19,000 in compensation and Majid went to jail. But Ameneh did not want the money.

She wanted her attacker to suffer the same anguish she was forced to endure for more than six years.

Bahrami, whose hands, neck and face were also disfigured in the attack said she does not see the ruling as taking revenge, but wanted to ‘prevent it from happening to someone else.’

She has received death threats because of her determination to exact revenge.

‘The police have told me not to go out on the street alone,’ she said. ‘My parents are scared. They think the judges are wrong.’

Arrangements had been made for Ameneh to inject the acid into her attacker’s eyes as he lies in a Tehran hospital under an aesthetic at midday today. Twenty drops in each eye.

She was quoted as saying: ‘I’m very happy. After six years I’m getting justice. But we are both losers because we have both suffered greatly.’

Bahrami and her lawyer have now said they were not aware that the punishment had been postponed.

‘I haven’t got any official news on the postponement of the verdict,’ said her lawyer Ali Sarrafi.

‘The verdict has been issued by the court and it is legally enforceable unless it is postponed due to legal reasons.’

Judiciary officials were not available for comment but an unnamed official said: ‘The punishment of Majid was scheduled to be carried out on Saturday at a hospital but it has been postponed.’

Amnesty International has urged Iran not to carry out the sentence, saying: ‘the Iranian authorities have a responsibility under international law to ensure it does not go ahead’.

‘Regardless of how horrific the crime suffered by Ameneh Bahrami, being blinded with acid is a cruel and inhuman punishment amounting to torture,’ said Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui, deputy director for Amnesty International’s Middle East and North Africa Programme.

Painful evidence: Ameneh Bahrami’s clothing and shoes destroyed by acid are kept by her family in their Tehran apartment

Psalm 10^[a]

¹ Why, LORD, do you stand far off?
Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?

² In his arrogance the wicked man hunts down the weak,
who are caught in the schemes he devises.
³ He boasts about the cravings of his heart;
he blesses the greedy and reviles the LORD.
⁴ In his pride the wicked man does not seek him;
in all his thoughts there is no room for God.
⁵ His ways are always prosperous;
your laws are rejected by^[b] him;
he sneers at all his enemies.
⁶ He says to himself, “Nothing will ever shake me.”
He swears, “No one will ever do me harm.”

⁷ His mouth is full of lies and threats;
trouble and evil are under his tongue.
⁸ He lies in wait near the villages;
from ambush he murders the innocent.
His eyes watch in secret for his victims;
⁹ like a lion in cover he lies in wait.
He lies in wait to catch the helpless;
he catches the helpless and drags them off in his net.
¹⁰ His victims are crushed, they collapse;
they fall under his strength.
¹¹ He says to himself, “God will never notice;
he covers his face and never sees.”

¹² Arise, LORD! Lift up your hand, O God.
Do not forget the helpless.
¹³ Why does the wicked man revile God?
Why does he say to himself,
“He won’t call me to account”?
¹⁴ But you, God, see the trouble of the afflicted;
you consider their grief and take it in hand.
The victims commit themselves to you;
you are the helper of the fatherless.
¹⁵ Break the arm of the wicked man;
call the evildoer to account for his wickedness
that would not otherwise be found out.

¹⁶ The LORD is King for ever and ever;
the nations will perish from his land.
¹⁷ You, LORD, hear the desire of the afflicted;
you encourage them, and you listen to their cry,
¹⁸ defending the fatherless and the oppressed,
so that mere earthly mortals
will never again strike terror.

Unknown#1: Who brave enough to answer yes? DOES A PEDOPHILE GET A PASS IF HE IS A TALENTED MUSICIAN ?

Unknown#2: obvious answer is yes.. http://i.imgur.com/O9F8c.jpg (picture of michael jackson)

Unknown#1: ok i see your point. thank you.  i have another question.  Does a rapist,or a pedophile, or a child molester all of the things that one could think of, murderer you name it get a pass if he is a talented musician?  and why?

Unknown#2: i wish i could interchange “musician” with “athlete” the examples would be endless esp in american football..in regards to musicians getting a pass JAH CURE

Did his time, i believe zebra too…woman beater and not very talented chris brown is a prime candidate as the one that got a pass… as to the why i guess its an ability to generate $$$ for people that gets you a pass…shit it worked for the mafia..

Unknown#1: My conclusion based on Unknown#2’s insight. “As long as human beings continue to put money in musician’s pockets, the musician that is 30+ will have the income to support his personal life. If he is a musician in the public and a rapist of women, children a pedophile or murderer in his personal life he will get a pass. Unknown#2 gave some very helpful insight to this “debate”.  Now my next question. Are the human beings that put money in musician’s that are pedophiles indirectly/directly guilty of helping him continue to assault his victims in his personal life?   don’t hold back

Skin clean and tight will be forever youngggggggggggggggg Cecile you will be forever younggggggg Pharaoh Jacket yuh gwine live forever be forever youngggggg…All dem did need di gold sinting roun yuh head and tell yuh walk like an Egyptian…… I cannot manage