Alleged acid attacker has eye GOUGED OUT as punishment

By Zoe Drewett
In 2011 Ameneh Bahrami took back her demand to have her attacker blinded for throwing acid in her faceVICTIM: In 2011 Ameneh Bahrami took back her demand to have her attacker blinded for throwing acid in her face [AP]
The attacker – who hasn't been named – passed out in prison as medics hacked out his left eye.

The man was forcibly blinded in Iran on Tuesday, March 3 in a literal application of the country's "eye for an eye" interpretation of Sharia law.

Human rights organisations condemned the punishment as "barbaric".

Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam from Iran Human Rights said: "Iranian authorities have shown yet another side of their brutality and inhumane practice.

"Medical staff who cooperate with the Iranian authorities in this act have broken the Hippocratic oath and cannot call themselves doctors."

Another alleged acid attacker was supposed to be blinded on the same day but his victim delayed the punishment at the last minute.

Ameneh Bahrami holds a photo of how she looked before her brutal acid attack in IranFORGIVE: Ameneh Bahrami holds a photo of how she looked before her brutal acid attack in Iran [AP]
"Iranian authorities have shown yet another side of their brutality and inhumane practice."
Human rights campaigner, Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam
The prisoner – named Hamid – was sentenced to one eye blinded and an ear cut off for allegedly attacking Davoud Roushanaei in a brutal attack.

Roushanai was left badly disfigured after the assault in the city of Qom in August 2009.

"Hamid was about to be rendered unconscious on the bed when his father entered the room and asked me for more time.

"I gave them two more months to provide me with compensation for my treatment," Roushanaei told the Guardian.

Iran vowed to crack down on acid attacks after a spate of assaults on women last year.

Under Iranian law, victims can ask a court's permission to give an attacker in an equal injury as punishment.

Victims do have the power to forgive their completely, as was the case in 2011 when Ameneh Bahrami took back her demand to have her attacker blinded as he waited in the operating theatre