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When Ameneh Bahrami rejected a man’s marriage proposal, he turned bitter and threw acid into her face leaving her with extreme disfigurements. She went through 19 agonising operations and is permanently blind, but this didn’t stop her wanting justice on the man who ruined her life. In court, the judge wanted the accused to serve a lengthy prison sentence and pay full compensation to Ameneh, but she had different ideas: She asked if she could have exact revenge, by injecting acid into the man’s eyes. The court allowed it as a capital punishment, and arrangements were made for Ameneh to inject 20 drops of acid into her attacker’s eyes to blind him.

SHE TRILL AS FUCK

There’s a lot to this story, but the above isn’t true in a number of different ways. 

Most importantly, she is more awesome (in my opinion) than this paragraph makes her out to be. After her attacker was sentenced to be blinded in both eyes, he was dragged screaming into a hospital, maintaining that he had every right to have done what he did. He was put under general anesthesia expecting to awaken blind but awoke having been pardoned by Bahrami in what I feel like is the most baller move in history.

“I couldn’t do it, I knew I could not live with it until the end of my life. I knew I would have suffered and burned twice had I done that.”

After her attacker woke up:

“[He] was completely in shock, he fell at my feet, I said go away and don’t utter my name in your whole life.”

Frikkin Badass.

The Iranian Government, in the shittiest move of all time ever, allowed her attacker freedom from the need to pay for her surgeries, so now she is largely destitute. 

Read the whole story here.

And if you would like to help fund her recovery, you can purchase her book in Kindle edition in Spanish (it hasn’t been translated to English) here. Which I just did.