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Iran Focus
 Tehran, Iran, Sep. 27 – An Iranian court in the north-eastern city of Mashad sentenced a man to have one of his eye’s gouged
out as punishment for blinding another man during a scuffle, state-run press
reported.
The defendant, identified only by his first name Amir,
was sentenced by the court to have his left eye gouged out, the hard-line daily
Quds wrote in its Tuesday edition. It added that Amir was found guilty of blinding a man identified as
Mehdi in one eye during a scuffle they had in the open.
Amir, who is currently languishing in jail, was
also sentenced to 74 lashes and prison time.
The phrase “An eye for an eye” is very stringently adhered to in Iran’s
Islamic law.
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