Iranian Court Orders Man To Be Blinded

ezilon.com ^ | 6/28/2005 | Angus McDowall

[Popman]

...unusual sentences are sometimes passed by Islamic courts, which are bound by rigid Koran injunctions for certain crimes. But they say these punishments are usually used as leverage for the amount of compensation to be paid by the offender to the victim.

In this case, the victim seeks £180,000, which a board of arbitration is trying to reduce because the defendant says he cannot pay. The board is also trying to persuade the victim's family to give up their demand that the crime should be classed as qisas.

So, the Koran law is used as a tool to get people to pony up to pay monetary penalties.

I guess a set of eyes are worth £180,000

[Heyworth]

I'm just waiting for Amnesty International, the international human rights people, and the liberal media to put up a cry over this.

Come on, it's in the second sentence of the story. "Amnesty International has condemned the sentence, reported in the Iranian daily Etemaad, but local human rights groups say these unusual punishments are hardly ever executed."

[Spiff]

An Iranian court has sentenced a man to have his eyes surgically removed for a crime he committed as a teenager 12 years ago. Amnesty International has condemned the sentence, reported in the Iranian daily Etemaad, but local human rights groups say these unusual punishments are hardly ever executed.

Well, as long as the Iranians don't turn the AC knob a little to far counter-clockwise, or, heaven forbid, someone puts panties on his head. Then Amnesty International would get really upset.

[evad]

I'll carry out the sentence...

aarrrgggghh...one look at that and you'll be blind or want to be blind.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Come on, nothing. There is NOTHING on their website. Check out what their lead story is: http://www.amnesty.org/

[softwarecreator]

Maybe it was citric acid he threw ... hey, it stings, ya know?

[jmq]

State religion of Peace.........

[M. Dodge Thomas]

Come on, nothing. There is NOTHING on their website

Do a search for "Iran", there's pages of stuff reporting abuses by the Iranian legal system.

[Reeses]

these punishments are usually used as leverage for the amount of compensation to be paid by the offender to the victim.

How primative. In America these lawsuits will only cost an arm and a leg... or the cash equivalent.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

I'll carry out the sentence...

No thanks; I'll stick to self-abuse.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

When I go to the little search thing at the top of the homepage and type "Iran", the latest story I see is from Sept. 2003: http://web.amnesty.org/library/index/ENGMDE130332003

[M. Dodge Thomas]

the latest story I see is from Sept. 2003

When you get the search results, click "search on date"

www.amnesty.org/results/is/eng?queryType=0&searchIn=0&query=iran&start=1&num=10&max=25&sortBy=date

www.tinyurl.com/crx58

(BTW, I was asked by the moderators a while back not to post "clikable" links, as this points back to FR).

[festus]

But for the 12 year old at the time bit I'd be siding with the muslims on this one.

There is no amount of jail time or beating that can equal blinding another man for the rest of his life.

The eye for an eye principle is a good one.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Thanks, that's good stuff.

[skinkinthegrass]

*helen thomas photo*
OH! NO! :D

[axlhuckleberry]

That's a bit extreme. Iranians are nuts!

[Robert_Paulson2]

"Reformists and dissidents fear human rights could suffer under the new administration of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad..."

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roflmao...

kill a couple hundred mullahs, imams and ruling clerics... then get back to us, habib.

[MaxMax]

Oh no ayatollah I will pay up let me find my wallet,
lets' see 1,000 for a right eye and $500 for a left.

And $250 for the brown eye assault.