Ameneh Bahrami
Ameneh Bahrami (also: Ameneh Bahraminava, Persian آمنه بهرامی نوا; born 1978 in Tehran ) is an Iranian woman and the victim of an acid attack, by which it was disfigured and that led to their complete blindness. She became internationally known through their insistence to dazzle the offender. In July 2011, she renounced the glare.
Life
Ameneh Bahrami is a trained electrical engineer and worked for a company in the medical equipment industry. At the same time, she studied at the University of Tehran. In 2003, she rejected the marriage proposal of a four years younger, then 19 -year-old students. This then began to stalk her and showered her in 2004 sulfuric acid in the face. The burns destroyed one eye immediately, and the other, so that they eventually went blind gradually. In the rest of the face was disfigured. In addition, there were internal injuries. " Because the doctors at the hospital did not dare take off her headscarf after the attack, the injuries above the forehead remained undiscovered for long. The acid could burn deeper and deeper into her skin " Bahrami underwent in Spain seventeen operations.; the Iranian government supported them financially.
The perpetrator, Majid Mowahedi, was tried and sentenced to 12 years in prison and a compensation payment of 130,000 euros, 130,000 euros because a man would have enjoyed 260,000 euros, a woman after Islamic- Iranian law, was worth only half a man. He showed no remorse.
Bahrami insisted on taking him also by acid eyesight. Since the Iranian law is characterized by the Shariah, it is the principle of retaliation ( qisas ) the right to do, even though such an act is considered by many Iranians as barbaric. The judge emphasized:
" Under Iranian law, and according to the Holy book the Koran a woman is worth half as much as a man. Consequently include two eyes of a woman so much as an eye of a man. And so Mrs. Bahrami receives the right to hide an eye of the offender. In order to hide his second eye, the payment of twenty million Toman becoming due. "
On intervention Bahramis she was finally allowed to destroy the other eye of the offender with acid. "Your face and hand injuries were netted his second eye. " His face rest should remain intact. Bahrami it went by its own account is not about revenge, but about prevention: Other women should be spared this fate in the future. The glare of the offender should be held on May 14, 2011. The man should thereby be stunned while Bahrami or a member of their family should him with a pipette acid instilled into the eyes. The human rights organization Amnesty International deplored the retaliation Bahramis and called on the Iranian authorities to stop the " inhumane and cruel " man's punishment. Without giving reasons, the Iranian judiciary postponed the day before the planned glare. The Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani has sent a fax to all concerned that the execution is suspended.
In July 2011, Bahrami abandoned shortly before the execution, as her youngest brother had already taken in the operating room, the acid pipette in hand, all the glare. Bahrami told that she had forgiven the offender, but the thing is driven up to the top, so that the warning to all men will clearly that were planning similar with women as it had happened to her. " I have done this for several reasons: because God, for my country and for myself ," she explained. In addition, her family did not want this revenge. "I have fought seven years that these eye-for -eye punishment is carried out, but now I feel relieved that it did not happen. "
It requires the perpetrator to financial compensation with blood money. Against her offered only 130,000 euros it intends to proceed to trial and the full height, which states a man erstreiten, because there is a hadith of the Prophet, in the stand, the woman is the other half of the man, so a woman before law a man would have to be equal.
Publications
- Michael Gösele & Jutta kingdom of heaven: an eye for an eye. A worshiper poured me acid in the face. Now his fate is in my hands. mvg Verlag, München 2010, ISBN 978-3-86882-155-0