IRAN: YOUNG WOMAN SENTENCED TO HAVE EYES GOUGED OUT

A young woman was sentenced to have her eyes gouged out in northeastern Iran, Women’s Committee of Iran NCRI reported on 9 May 2020.
Identified as F.M., the 30-year-old woman was tried by the 5th Branch of the Criminal Court of Khorasan Razavi Province. According to the court ruling, she is to be blinded in both eyes, but her eye sockets should stay intact.
This is not the first time that the mullahs’ regime has issued inhumane sentences.  Cruel and inhumane punishments are institutionalized in the laws of the mullahs’ regime. Articles 269 to 293 of the Third Book of the Islamic Penal Code describe all the conditions for retribution. The United Nations Convention against Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment is an international human rights directive to prevent torture and other inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. So far, 159 countries have acceded to the convention, but the Islamic Republic of Iran has not been among them.