Iran must not carry out retribution blinding sentence

Friday 13 May 2011 A Tehran court ordered that a man be blinded with acid as "retribution in kind" for an acid attack he carried out Amnesty International today called on the Iranian authorities to not carry out a sentence ordering a man to be blinded by having acid dropped in both eyes as part of a retribution punishment.Majid Movahedi was sentenced to “retribution in kind” (qesas) in 2008 after he poured a bucket of acid over Ameneh Bahrami, who had rejected his marriage proposal several times. A Tehran court ordered that five drops of acid be placed in each of his eyes and the sentence…

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