Inhumane ruling in Iran: man to be blinded with acid injection

The second eye of a prison by the name of Mojtaba Saheli is scheduled to be blinded next week in Gohardasht Prison of Karaj, west of Tehran, according to a ruling issued by the Iranian regime’s so-called judiciary.

Saheli, jailed in Gohardasht Prison since 2009 and sentenced to 10 years behind bars, lost his first eye through acid injection on March 3^rd, 2015. Mohammad Shahriari, deputy public prosecutor in the mullahs’ regime, was present when the ruling was carried out. He currently cannot pay for the diya, or blood money. He has been informed he will lose his second eye next week through acid injection.

This prisoner is 31 years old and is currently detained in ward 2 of hall 4 in Gohardasht Prison.

Saheli was charged and convicted of splashing acid on a driver in the city of Qom, central Iran, causing the man going blind. It is not clear why the perpetrators of acid attacks against dozens of women and girls in Tehran and other cities across Iran have never been identified, and the regime has taken no action to follow-up on this devastating social dilemma in Iran.

Prior to this Amnesty International in its annual report declared Iran continues to witness torture, executions, amputations, lashing in public, juvenile executions, restrictions on freedom of press and assembly, social media filtering, newspapers being closed and journalists being thrown behind bars.

In its report Amnesty International also protested the Iranian regime’s refusal to provide medical care and medicine to prisoners, and preventing the transfer of ill patients for treatment outside of prison.

Amnesty International also mentioned inhumane measures such as amputating limbs and blinding prisoners, adding: “Two men in Mashhad had their fingers amputated and another individual in Karaj was blinded.”

In the past on August 2^nd, 2015 the inhumane mullahs’ regime had issued a “qisas” (retribution in kind) ruling to have a 28-year old man by the name of Hamed be blinded.

The charges raised against Hamed, arrested back in 2010 when aged merely 25, were unintentionally damaging a driver’s eyes during a street clash.

“It was around 12 midnight and I was at home when my mother called and said my father had been in car accident with a Peugeot vehicle. I went to the scene of the accident to help my father and I truly did not intend to damage anyone’s eyes,” he said in court.

Currently state media in Iran are reporting a qisas ruling of a man in Gohardasht Prison to be blinded through acid injection, whereas according to the relevant judge no physician has been willing to carry out this ruling. As a result the judge issued a ruling to have the acid injected into the defendant’s eye to ensure the mullah-fabricated qisas ruling is carried out against this suspect.

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