Court urges victim to forego paralysis punishment (From Asian Image)
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Court urges victim to forego paralysis punishment
12:20pm Tuesday 24th August 2010 in
A Saudi court is trying to persuade a man paralysed in a fight to drop his demand to inflict a similar injury on his attacker by having his spinal cord surgically damaged, a judiciary spokesman said.
The court determined that such a procedure could result in the attacker’s death and is appealing to the victim to accept financial compensation instead, the spokesman said, speaking on condition of anonymity under judiciary rules.
Abdul-Aziz al-Mutairi, who is 22, was left paralysed and subsequently lost a foot after a fight more than two years ago in which a man attacked him with a cleaver.
He asked a judge in north-western Tabuk province to impose an equivalent punishment on his attacker under Islamic law.
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