{"id":4893,"date":"2016-05-31T01:14:47","date_gmt":"2016-05-31T06:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/?p=4893"},"modified":"2016-05-31T01:20:35","modified_gmt":"2016-05-31T06:20:35","slug":"horrifying-iran-regime-to-blind-5-prisoners-with-acid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/2016\/05\/31\/horrifying-iran-regime-to-blind-5-prisoners-with-acid\/","title":{"rendered":"Horrifying: Iran regime to blind 5 prisoners with acid"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"2016529102828967831361_Iran-regime-to-blind-the-eyes-of-5-prisoners-with-Acid\"<\/a>The horrible law of retribution, or as it is called by the mullahs\u2019 regime in Iran as Qisas<\/strong><\/span>, which is based on the old saying of \u201can eye for an eye\u201d, the Iranian regime is to blind at least five prisoners in Iran\u2019s notorious Gohardasht Prison in Karaj, northwest of the capital Tehran. This barbaric punishment also includes to deafen the prisoners as well.
\nAccording to reports from inside the prison, some 40 kilometers from the Iranian capital Tehran, the Iranian regime\u2019s judiciary is pushing for the sentences to be implemented quickly; however prison doctors have thus far refused to carry out the draconian procedures.
\nMojtaba Saheli (Yasaveli), 31, who was previously blinded in his left eye by the regime, was recently informed by prison officials that he is to be blinded in the right eye with acid.
\nOn March 3, 2015 he was blinded in one eye with acid in Gohardasht Prison in the presence of the regime\u2019s deputy prosecutor in Tehran Mohammad Shahriari and prison officials after the draconian sentence was upheld by the regime\u2019s Supreme Court.
\nOn August 3, 2009 he allegedly blinded a driver in Qom, south of Tehran, with acid. The regime\u2019s court in Qom sentenced Mr. Saheli to be blinded in both eyes with acid, pay blood money and serve a 10-year prison term as part of the regime\u2019s inhumane law of retribution.
\nMr. Saheli is currently imprisoned in Ward 2 of Hall 4 of Gohardasht Prison. He had been told to pay blood money to avoid the new blinding sentence from being implemented on his right eye.
\nAccording to one report, Mr. Saheli recently enquired from the prison\u2019s office of implementations about his sentence and was informed that the implementation order for his sentence had been received, but until now no physician had been willing to break their doctor\u2019s oath to carry out the sentence.
\nHe was furthermore informed that the regime\u2019s judiciary is pressing for the sentence to be carried out and that at any moment one of the doctors may decide to set aside their oath and carry out the blinding sentence.
\nFive prisoners are currently awaiting to be administered acid on to their eyes and ears. They are:
\n\u2022\u00a0Mojtaba Saheli (Yasaveli), 31, whose left eye has already been blinded, and who is awaiting implementation of a sentence to be blinded in the right eye.
\n\u2022\u00a0Fatollah Khojasteh, sentenced to be blinded in one eye and made deaf in one ear with acid.
\n\u2022\u00a0An unnamed prisoner, sentenced to be blinded in both eyes with acid.
\n\u2022\u00a0An unnamed prisoner, sentenced to be blinded in one eye and made deaf in one ear with acid.
\n\u2022\u00a0An unnamed prisoner, sentenced to be blinded in one eye with acid.
\nDr. Sanabargh Zahedi, chairman of the Judicial Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran ( NCRI <\/a>), earlier this month said: \u201cThe inhumane law of retribution (qisas) has been implemented against the Iranian people for the past 37 years. These punishments date back to the medieval ages and show the clerical regime\u2019s reactionary nature. These inhuman punishments are clear violations of all principles and norms of a modern judiciary, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and all civil and political covenants. Such punishments undoubtedly constitute a savage form of torture and should be condemned by any freedom-seeking person. The Iranian Resistance and NCRI members have since 1980 condemned the regime\u2019s qisas law as anti-human.\u201d
\n<\/strong>\u201cAccording to the logic of the Quran and modern democratic Islam the first principle which applies to the penal code is dynamism. Thus the Islamic penal provision should be interpreted within the context of social and economic conditions and scientific progress. The clerical regime is centuries away from this logic, and as such it is clear that there is no possibility of reform within this regime,\u201d he added.
\nAmnesty International in a statement on March 5, 2015 condemned the Iranian regime for blinding Mr. Saheli in his left eye two days earlier.
\n\u201cPunishing someone by deliberately blinding them is an unspeakably cruel and shocking act,’ said Raha Bahreini, Amnesty International’s Iran Researcher.
\n‘This punishment exposes the utter brutality of Iran\u2019s justice system and underlines the Iranian authorities’ shocking disregard for basic humanity. Meting out cruel and inhuman retribution punishments is not justice. Blinding, like stoning, amputation and flogging, is a form of corporal punishment prohibited by international law. Such punishments should not be carried out under any circumstances.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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