Iran: qisas

A man who threw acid on a tailor shop employee’s face is sentenced to eye gauging and earlobe cutting.
Hamid,then 26, told in the courthearing that he accidently threw the acid at the victim. The victim lost nearly all eyesight and his earlob has burned, also his eyebrows were burnt.
Judge Nourollah Aziz Mohammadi and two councilor judges of Branch 71 of the Tehran Province Penal Courts unanimously sentenced Hamid to Qisas in his left eye and his right earlobe and payment of diyah (blood money), and they transferred him to prison. The Supreme Court upheld the sentence.
source: ICHRI

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