LGBT Rights Iran: homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more.
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IRAN: MURR OF GAY MAN HIGHLIGHTS DANGERS OF STATE-SANCTNED AB AGAST LGBTI PEOPLE
Iran’s Islamist regime persecut and discrimat agast lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) cizens. * lgbt iran twitter *
The Hengaw Organizatn for Human Rights reported that they were acced of promotg homosexualy, promotg Christiany and munitg wh media opposed to the Islamic 's judiciary later nfirmed the sentenc, but said they were nnected to human traffickg and not activism.
It ced her as sayg that she was forcibly disappeared for 53 days, durg which an IRGC agent allegedly subjected her to "tense terrogatns acpanied by verbal abe" and "threatened to execute or otherwise harm her and take away the ctody of her two young children" January, Seddiqi Hamedani was brought before a prosecutor Urmia, the largt cy Wt Azerbaijan, and told that she was acced of "spreadg rptn on Earth", cludg through promotg homosexualy, munitg wh hostile media and promotg Christiany, acrdg to group said the first two accatns stemmed om her public fence of LGBT rights on social media and her appearance a May 2021 BBC documentary about ab that LGBT people were sufferg Iraq's semi-tonomo Kurdistan Regn, where she had been Iranian law, same-sex sexual nduct is a crimal offence, wh punishments rangg om floggg to the ath penalty.
Augt 26, 2021—In a new LGBTQ Fact Sheet published today by the Center for Human Rights Iran (CHRI), the extreme rights vlatns and adly vlence perpetrated by both the state and society agast the LGBTQ muny (lbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer) Iran are highlighted a ncise, accsible format for rearchers, journalists, and policymakers. In a 2020 survey of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and tersex (LGBTI) Iranians nducted by the Iranian Lbian and Transgenr Network (6Rang), almost 20 percent of participants claimed to have been victims of vlence by police officers, secury forc, prosecutors, and/or judg.
The horrifyg murr of a 20-year-old gay man Iran has shed new light on how the crimalizatn of nsensual same-sex sexual nduct and genr non-nformy perpetuat systemic vlence and discrimatn agast lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and tersex people (LGBTI), said Amnty Internatnal a tailed analysis issued to mark the Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia, […] * lgbt iran twitter *
In December 2019, Rezvaneh Mohammadi, an activist for genr equaly, received a five-year prison sentence for the unprecented charge of “lln agast natnal secury by seekg to normalize homosexual relatns. Although the Mizan news agency nied that Sareh and Elham Choubdar were prosecuted bee of their activism, Iranian human rights groups have said they were acced of "spreadg homosexualy", "promotg Christiany", and munitg wh media hostile to the Islamic allegatn about promotn of Christiany is said to have been ma partly bee Sareh has worn a necklace wh a ptn, The US and rabow flags are often disrpected on Iranian social mediaIt's que normal for the Iranian thori to prosecute gay men unr bog charg. Acrdg to Iranian activists, at least four other people have been executed for beg gay the last 12 months, two of them as recently as e of the same tactic wh two LGBT women marks a new parture.
Rabow flags have been set on fire alongsi the US and Israeli flags, and there have been reports of people beg arrted for g LGBT datg a few days ago, the untry's hardle print Ebrahim Raissi referred to homosexuals g the highly offensive word and scribed homosexualy as "dirty behavur" and "morn barbarism" March, Supreme Lear Ali Khamenei scribed homosexualy as part of the "moral pravy" wispread Wtern civilisatn.
The Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn (ILGA) published a report on Tuday verg the crimalizatn of nsensual same-sex relatns, statg that the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Kgdom of Sdi Arabia and other Mlim-majory untri are spected of executg gays. “Possible executns were intified at least two untri (Iran and Sdi Arabia), wh an addnal number of summary executns rried out by surgent groups that gaed effective ntrol over a certa portn of terrory at least six other untri (Somalia, Libya, Yemen, Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan), ” noted the ILGA World homophobia exists a number of Mlim-majory untri, acrdg to the report, which stat that “there is full legal certaty that the ath penalty exists as a prcribed punishment for nsensual same-sex sexual activy Bnei, Iran, Sdi Arabia and Yemen. (cred: NOAM REVKIN/FLASH90)Acrdg to the study, “ October 2019 a Brish-Iranian anthropologist studyg child marriage and female genal mutilatn the untry was arrted, wh reports November 2020 ditg that he had been sentenced by Iran’s Revolutnary Court to ne years imprisonment and a fe of USD 700, 000 for 'promotg homosexualy, ' as well as 'visg Israel [...