London, 6 March: A man who hurled acid in a young girl's face should be sentenced to have a similar punishment applied to him, an Iranian court has ruled. According to Middle Eastern website Haaretz, the unidentified Iranian man was allegedly told by Opposition group the National Council of Resistance Iran that he would have his eyes cut out ~ as well as his nose and right ear ~ after the girl was blinded and lost her right ear. His fate was revealed after he was convicted in October last year.
Iran's high court has publicly accepted the judgement of mutilation as punishment which will see the procedure ~ called "qisas" ~ carried out. A part of the Iranian judicial system, it dates back to the Old
Testament in the Bible and represents a form of retaliation as punishment, similar to the "eye for an eye" concept.
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