Majid Movahedi, a 27-year-old Iranian, blinded a woman with acid after she declined his offer of marriage. Ameneh Bahrami, was left with horrific injuries when Movahedi threw a jar of acid in her face while she was walking home from work in a busy neighbourhood in 2004.
The evil thug had previously threatened and harassed the young woman who had then reported the incidents to the police but was told no action could be taken.
The jealous lover had been asked to marry Movahedi a number of times previously but she had refused and he then went on to threaten to kill her.
While Bahrami, who was an electronics graduate at the time of the attack, sensed that she was being followed and quickened her pace only for Movahedi to catch up and step in front of her where he then threw the acid at her face.
The evil man claimed that he decided to attack her when she told him she had married someone else and asked him to leave her alone.
Movahedi told the court,
“I decided to splash acid on her face so her husband would leave her and I could have her.”
When asked if he would still be prepared to marry Bahrami, despite her injuries, he replied,
“Yes, I love her”
This poor woman has so far undergone seventeen operations in an unsuccessful attempt to reconstruct her face. She lost one eye and is totally blind in the other.
When testifying at the hearing, she told the court that she wanted,
“to inflict the same life on him that he inflicted on me”
She was asked if she wanted Movahedi’s face splashed with acid, she replied,
“That is impossible and horrific. Just drop 20 drops of acid in his eyes so he can realise the pain i am undergoing”.
Under Iran’s sharia law (an eye for an eye), Movahedi, has now been sentenced to the punishment, he will be blinded in both eyes from drops of acid.
Maybe if the same punishment’s were handed out to other mindless thugs around the UK, they would think twice about the pain and destruction caused.
In fact, Tehran’s deputy public prosecutor, Mahmoud Salarkia, stated that,
“Awareness of the punishment has a huge deterrent effect in stopping social crimes”.
1 comment so far
1 Alexandra // Feb 19, 2009 at 5:18 pm
I agree that maybe the UK needs to see some of this justice implemented. However, we just give criminals all kinds of rights while ensuring the victims rights are not protected. Good on Ameneh for demanding this.