Quotes of the Day
Monday, May. 16, 2011
This 'eye for an eye,' tribal approach to crimes underlies how the law reinforces a cycle of violence instead of reducing it.
- NAYEREH TOHIDI,
- an Iran expert and a professor of women's studies, referring to the sentencing of blinding for a man who threw acid in a woman's face in 2004; Iran's judiciary has postponed the punishment amid public outcry
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