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Photo essay: Acid attack survivors fight back
Dhāka :: Bangladesh | over 1 year ago
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Autoplay Acid is thrown in women's faces or forced down their throats almost daily in Bangladesh. Such violence melts skin and bone, often resulting in blindness. The country has become a hotspot for acid attacks, mostly on women, because of land
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Blinded by acid, now denied compensation for showing her attacker mercy
Tehrān :: Iran | over 1 year ago
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Suggested Topics A woman blinded and horrifically disfigured in an acid attack by a spurned admirer is suing Iran's judiciary after accusing senior officials of cheating her out of compensation when she agreed to spare her attacker from a similar
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Stigma stings more than the burn itself
Mumbai :: India | over 1 year ago
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In a world where people are judged by the way they look, acid attack survivor Shirin Juwaley is helping those whose faces and bodies have been scarred beyond recognition. Attacked by her disgruntled ex-husband with acid in May 1998, 37-year-old
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Iran court orders acid attacker to lose eye, report says
Tehrān :: Iran | over 1 year ago
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Iran's supreme court has upheld a sentence of blinding in one eye for a waiter who hurled acid at a man five years ago in a plot hatched by the victim's brother-in-law, Shargh newspaper reported Monday. The 26-year-old waiter, identified by his first
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A dishonor to all
Dhāka :: Bangladesh | almost 2 years ago
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Honor killing is widespread in Third World countries and transcend all religions. Details of the murders of the women beheaded, burned to death, stoned to death, stabbed, electrocuted, strangled and buried alive for the honor of their families are as
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AUDIO: Iran acid victim on why she forgave
Tehrān :: Iran | almost 2 years ago
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Victim forgives man who disfigured her in acid attack 11 August 2011 Last updated at 11:51 ET A man who threw a bottle of acid at a woman's face has been pardoned by her. Iranian Ameneh Bahrami was left blinded and severely disfigured after the
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Acid attack victims left to fend for themselves
Bangalore :: India | almost 2 years ago
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On Sunday last, under Iranian law, a physician would have dropped acid into the eyes of Majid Movahedi, in retribution for his attack on Amenah Behrami, seven years ago. But instead of seeking an eye for an eye, though, Behrami offered clemency to
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Julian Baggini: Clemency still has its place
Nottingham :: United Kingdom | almost 2 years ago
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It might seem frivolous, indeed distasteful, to talk about a woman blinded by an acid attack in Tehran in the same breath as a fortunate batsman at a cricket match in Nottingham. But not only is it fruitful to do so, it is precisely the juxtaposition
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Acid attack victim rejects 'eye for an eye' punishment
Tehrān :: Iran | almost 2 years ago
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Revenge in Iran acid attack is 'not worth it' From Shirzad Bozorgmehr , CNN Tehran, Iran (CNN) -- A woman blinded in an acid attack seven years ago said Sunday she stopped the "eye for an eye" punishment for her attacker because "such revenge is not
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Iran acid attacker won't face blinding
Tehrān :: Iran | almost 2 years ago
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A man convicted of blinding a woman in an acid attack was spared an eye-for-an-eye punishment Sunday, minutes before the sentence was to be carried out, Iranian state media reported. The Fars News Agency reported that the victim had a sudden change
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