Eye for an eye sentence ‘cruel’ – Amnesty

The man, reports The Independent, is to have his eyes surgically removed, although local human rights groups say these unusual punishments are hardly ever executed. The man, known only as Vahid, blinded a man when he threw a container of acid at him and the lid came off. A court said the crime should be judged as qisas, a category for which the Koran stipulates specific punishments, in this case an eye for an eye. Amnesty described the sentence as ‘cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment amounting to torture’. It called for a change of sentence. Full report in The Independent