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Thursday, March 05, 2009

BLIND JUSTICE

Blinded woman seeks eye-for-eye justice

An Iranian woman said she welcomed a Tehran court ruling that awards her eye-for-an-eye justice against a suitor who blinded both her eyes with acid.

Late last year an Iranian court ruled that the man, Majid, who blinded Bahrami in 2004 after she spurned him, should also be blinded with acid based on the Islamic law system of "qisas", or eye for an eye retribution, according to Iranian newspaper reports from November.

But Bahrami, who moved to Spain after the attack to get medical treatment, said that under Iranian law, she is entitled to blind him in only one eye, unless she pays E20,000 ($A39,223), because in Iran women are not considered equal to men.

"They have told us that my two eyes are equal to one of his because in my country each man is worth two women. They are not the same," she told Cadena SER.

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