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The Pakistani government brought in tough new penalties in a bid to stop the dozens of acid attacks which take place every year.
Pavel Dmitrichenko says, however, that he didn’t specifically ask for hot acid to be thrown in the ballet chief’s face.
Sergei Filin of the Bolshoi Ballet had sulphuric acid thrown in his face in mid-January and has been receiving treatment that may last for months.
The man, understood to be Polish, was attacked with acid while smoking outside his house in Dublin 15.
Ameneh Bahrami was blinded and seriously injured when her classmate threw a jar of acid at her following her refusal to marry him.
The woman was collecting her two children from school when a man approached her and threw acid at her, causing her to be hospitalised with serious burns.