iranian justice condemned two men and a woman to lose an eye in application of the retaliation lawfollowing having found them guilty of having made their victims lose the use of an eye, local media reported on Tuesday.
The three Iranians were “sentenced to lose an eye under the retaliation law in three different cases,” said Hamshahria Tehran city hall newspaper, without specifying the date of the convictions.
The retaliation law It is most often applied in Iran in cases of murder, and the victim’s family must expressly claim it.
the crimes committed
In a first case, a young woman threw acid at her neighbor, who lost an eye following an argument in 2011, according to the newspaper. She was sentenced to lose her right eye, to jail and a fine, a sentence confirmed by the Supreme Court.
In the second case, a man stabbed a relative in 2017 who lost an eye.
And in the third, a man shot a friend with a hunting gun in 2018 who lost the use of his left eye.
According to Hamshahri“these files were sent to the criminal prosecutor’s office of Tehran to prepare the execution of the sentence”.
International Amnesty and many human rights organizations have repeatedly denounced this type of punishment as torture. (AFP)
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