An Iranian woman has forgiven the man who blinded and disfigured her face, by throwing acid at her.
The AAP reported she forgave her attacker and decided not to go ahead with the court-ordered retribution, which involved a doctor putting acid into his eyes.
This is based on the Islamic law system of "qisas," or eye-for-an-eye retribution.
She asked the doctor to spare him at the last minute in a dramatic scene broadcast on Iran's state television.
Ameneh Bahrami lost her sight and suffered horrific burns to her face, scalp and body , when attacked by a man whose marriage proposal she rejected.
"It is best to pardon when you are in a position of power," she said.
The sobbing man, Majid Movahedi, said Bahrami was "very generous."
It was a change of heart when the court handed down the sentence in November 2008.
Bahrami was then happy with the ruling.
"I am not doing this out of revenge, but rather so that the suffering I went through is not repeated," she said in that March 2009 interview.
Warm Regard, Sara Pandian
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