Ameneh Bahrami

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Ameneh Bahrami

Ameneh Bahrami (also: Ameneh Bahraminava, Persian آمنه بهرامی نوا; *  1978 in Tehran ) is an Iranian woman and the victim of an acid attack that disfigured her and resulted in complete blindness . She became internationally known for her insistence on dazzling the perpetrator . In July 2011 she renounced the glare.

Life

Ameneh Bahrami is a trained electrical engineer and worked for a company in the medical technology sector. 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 fellow student . The latter then began to stalk her and in 2004 poured sulfuric acid on her face. The burns immediately destroyed one eye, the other gradually, so that she eventually went blind. The rest of her face was also disfigured. There were also internal injuries. “Because the doctors in the hospital didn't dare to take off their headscarves after the attack, the injuries above the forehead went undetected for a long time. The acid could burn itself deeper and deeper into her skin. ”Bahrami underwent seventeen operations in Spain; the Iranian government supported them financially.

The perpetrator, Majid Mowahedi, was charged and sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment and a compensation payment of 130,000 euros, 130,000 euros because a man was entitled to 260,000 euros, but a woman was only worth half a man under Islamic-Iranian law . He showed no remorse.

Bahrami insisted on acidifying his eyesight as well. Since Iranian law is shaped by Sharia law , the principle of retribution ( qisās ) gives it the right to do so, although such an act is considered barbaric by many Iranians. The judge emphasized:

“According to Iranian law and according to the Holy Book of the Koran, a woman is worth half as much as a man. Hence, two eyes of a woman count as much as one eye of a man. And so Ms. Bahrami receives the right to blind one eye of the perpetrator. In order to be able to dazzle his second eye, the payment of twenty million tomans would be due. "

On Bahrami's intervention, she was finally allowed to destroy the perpetrator's second eye with acid. "Your face and hand injuries were offset against his second eye." The rest of the face should remain intact. According to Bahrami, it was not about revenge, but about prevention: other women should be spared this fate in the future. The perpetrator was supposed to be dazzled on May 14, 2011. The man was to be anesthetized while Bahrami or a member of her family was to use a dropper to drip acid in his eyes. The human rights organization Amnesty International disapproved of Bahrami's retribution and called on the Iranian authorities to stop the "inhumane and cruel" punishment of the man. Without giving any reason, the Iranian judiciary postponed the planned glare the day before. The Iranian parliamentary speaker Ali Larijani sent a fax to all concerned that the enforcement was suspended.

In July 2011, shortly before the execution, when her youngest brother had already picked up the acid pipette in the operating room, Bahrami completely waived the glare. Bahrami said she had forgiven the perpetrator but took the matter to the extreme so that the warning would be clear to all men who would do anything similar to what happened to women. “I did this for various reasons: because of God, for my country and for myself,” she explained. In addition, her family did not want this revenge. "I fought for seven years to have this eye-for-eye punishment carried out, but now I feel liberated that it did not happen."

She demands financial compensation from the perpetrator in the form of blood money . Against the only 130,000 euros offered to her, she wants to go to court and fight for the full amount that a man is entitled to, because there is a hadith of the prophet that says: The woman is the other half of the man, which is why a woman before him Law would have to be equal to a man.

Publications

  • with Michael Gösele & Jutta Himmelreich: An eye for an eye. An admirer poured acid on my face. Now his fate is in my hands. mvg Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-86882-155-0

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b c Thomas Erdbrink: Woman Blinded by Spurned Man Invokes Islamic Retribution . In: The Washington Post . December 14, 2008
  2. ↑ a b Camilla Koziol: Acid attack: Will Ameneh Bahrami soon take revenge? In: Frauenzimmer.de. November 2010
  3. ↑ a b c d Eva Sudholt: Acid attack: A tormented woman fights for her revenge . In: The world . October 5, 2010
  4. ^ Robert Tait: Eye for an eye: Iranian man sentenced to be blinded for acid attack . In: The Guardian . November 28, 2008
  5. ↑ Dieter Bednarz : Revenge of an acid sacrifice: "I should forgive, but I don't want" . In: Spiegel Online . May 13, 2011
  6. ↑ a b Ameneh Bahrami: I will take away his eyesight . In: image . October 7, 2010
  7. ↑ Annette Langer : Retaliation for acid attack: "Am I not a person?" In: Spiegel Online . 4th October 2010
  8. ↑ Jana Neugebauer: Acid victim is allowed to burn offenders . In: BZ March 6, 2009
  9. ↑ Javier Cáceres: Acid attack in Iran - an eye for an eye . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . March 6, 2009
  10. ↑ a b Leo Wieland: Acid attack: an eye for an eye . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . March 5, 2009
  11. ↑ Iran: Acid victim wants to blind tormentors - an eye for an eye . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . March 6, 2009
  12. ↑ Amnesty International: Iran must not carry out retribution blinding sentence . May 13, 2011
  13. ↑ Acid attack - Ameneh Bahrami must not blind tormentors . In: Hamburger Abendblatt . May 13, 2011
  14. ↑ Iran: Iranian woman angry about postponed retaliation . In: Focus . May 14, 2011
  15. ↑ Iran: Acid sacrifice renounces act of revenge . In: Spiegel Online . July 31, 2011
  16. ↑ Birger Menke: Acid sacrifice Amene Bahrami: "He has learned nothing, absolutely nothing" . In: Spiegel Online . August 2, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Bahrami, Ameneh
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iranian writer, victim of acid attack
DATE OF BIRTH 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Tehran