A MAN accused of torturing his girlfriend and slicing her tongue in half, in a case described by a magistrate as the worst she has seen in her 10 years on the bench, has been refused bail by a Gold Coast Court.
Mohamad Tasleem Tahir, 21, appeared in Southport Magistrates Court today on video link from prison on one charge of torture, one of committing acts intended to disfigure, and one of causing grievous bodily harm.

In opposing a bail application, prosecutor Sergeant Brian Cazzulino told the court Mr Tahir had given no indication of regretting the horrific injuries he's accused of inflicting on his girlfriend.

"He has not shown any remorse while in prison, and refuses to believe he has committed an offence," he said..........

A MAN accused of torturing his girlfriend...

IRAN'S supreme court has upheld a sentence of blinding with acid for a man who blinded his lover's husband, under the Islamic "eye-for-an-eye" justice code, a government daily said today.
The convict, named only as Mojtaba, 25, threw acid in the face of Alireza, 25, a taxi driver in Iran's clerical hub city of Qom, after an "illicit affair" with the victim's wife, Mojdeh, also 25, said the newspaper Iran.

The supreme court has upheld a lower court ruling that Mojtaba be blinded with drops of acid, in line with Islamic justice, which allows for "qisas," or eye-for-an-eye retribution, in cases of violent crime, it said.

Qom prosecutor Mostafa Barzegar Ganji said the victim had used his right to qisas. "We have asked for forensic specialists to oversee the blinding of the convict," he said, quoted in Iran.

Several acid attacks have been reported in Iran.

In February 2009, Majid Movahedi was sentenced to be blinded in both eyes for having hurled acid in the face of a university classmate, Ameneh Bahrami, who refused a marriage proposal.