Iran btally execut gay man over 'sodomy' charg

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• ALIREZA FAZELI MONFARED WANTED TO LIVE AS A EE GAY MAN THE WT. HIS FAY IRAN BEHEAD HIM DAYS BEFORE HIS DREAM ME TE, SAY ACTIVISTS.
• IRAN EXECUT TEENAGE BOY FOR BEG GAY
• IRAN EXECUT TWO MEN FOR BEG GAY
• IRAN PURPORTEDLY EXECUT 2 GAY MEN OVER SODOMY CHARG
• IRAN’S NEW GAY EXECUTNS
• IRAN EXECUT A GAY MAN UNR LABEL OF SODOMY, SAYS EXPERT
• 13 UNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS LEGALLY PUNISHABLE BY ATH
• RIGHTS GROUP: IRAN EXECUT 2 GAY MEN OVER SODOMY CHARG
• IRAN EXECUT TWO GAY MEN OVER SODOMY CHARG, RIGHTS GROUP SAYS
• IRAN EXECUT 2 GAY MEN OVER SODOMY CHARG, RIGHTS GROUP SAYS
• IRAN BTALLY EXECUT GAY MAN OVER ‘SODOMY’ CHARG
• HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ANTI-GAY LAWS PROMOTE VLENCE, DISCRIMATN ST. VCENT
• IRAN PURPORTEDLY EXECUT 2 GAY MEN OVER SODOMY CHARG
• TWO GAY MEN ARE HANGED IRAN SIX YEARS AFTER THEY WERE JAILED ON 'SODOMY' CHARG
• IRAN EXECUT TWO MEN FOR BEG GAY
• IRAN EXECUT A GAY MAN UNR LABEL OF SODOMY, SAYS EXPERT
• IRAN BTALLY EXECUT GAY MAN OVER ‘SODOMY’ CHARG

ALIREZA FAZELI MONFARED WANTED TO LIVE AS A EE GAY MAN THE WT. HIS FAY IRAN BEHEAD HIM DAYS BEFORE HIS DREAM ME TE, SAY ACTIVISTS.

Alireza Fazeli Monfared, a 20-year-old gay Iranian man, was killed an alleged "honor killg.

IRAN EXECUT TEENAGE BOY FOR BEG GAY

Alireza Fazeli Monfared, a 20-year old Iranian man, was behead what an Iranian human-rights group says was an "honor killg" by fay members after they learned he was gay. But Iranian human-rights activists have said is emblematic of a daily persecutn that gay people Iran face. "The Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia' is g up on Monday (May 17), " Okan Sengun, the executive director and founr of the LGBT Asylum Project, said.

Homosexualy is nsired a psychologil disease IranWhile beg gay is forbidn Iran and punishable by ath, the law allows gay men to fo ary service.

"Homosexualy is also nsired a psychologil disease Iran, and the ary's ary board n exempt a gay man om service if they are emed homosexual after an examatn, " she add.

IRAN EXECUT TWO MEN FOR BEG GAY

"I thk their hate of homosexualy was so huge that they cid to kill him, " she May 4, Monfared ma the fal preparatns for his parture. The activist hop the vios rm people of queer people's liv Iran, where punishments for beg gay range om 100 lash of the whip to, the munitns director for the Center for Human Rights Iran, said homophobia was wispread the untry. "In the days followg the killg, Okan Sengun of the LGBT Asylum Project said he received many emails om gay Iranians who were heartbroken by Monfared's ath.

However, Afshar mataed that the sexual acts were nsensual and that the alleged victim had willgly engaged same-sex sexual activi on numero prev ocsns, leadg LGBT activists to claim the teen was executed simply for beg gay.

‘Homosexual nduct’ remas illegal unr Iran’s Sharia law and is punishable by f, public floggg or even executn. Earlier this year, a Mlim cleric told how he was forced to flee the untry after he was attacked for marryg gay upl.

IRAN PURPORTEDLY EXECUT 2 GAY MEN OVER SODOMY CHARG

Mehrdad Akbar Karimpour and Farid Mohammadi, both their 30s, were arrted roughly six years ago for beg gay and have been prison ever sce, HRANA reports. In July 2021, Iran Human Rights reported two other prisoners, Farhad Najafi, 25, and Ali Ahmadi, 23, had been executed for beg homosexuals the same prison Maragheh Northwt Iran.

All four prisoners executed at Maragheh were officially charged wh rape but human rights activists say the Iranian regime routely charg homosexuals wh crim other than sodomy orr to avoid ternatnal nmnatn. Iran’s regime equently the charg to impose the ath penalty on homosexuals.

IRAN’S NEW GAY EXECUTNS

Iran is one of a handful of untri where homosexualy self is also punishable by ath. The Islamic regime crimaliz homosexualy and often genr reassignment surgery as the “treatment” for homosexualy. Protters light ndl durg a monstratn Manila, Philipp, to nmn the executn of two teenagers Iran bee of their homosexualy, an Augt 5, 2005 file photo.

Dubai, Uned Arab Emirat — Iran has executed two gay men who were nvicted on charg of sodomy and spent six years on ath row, a rights group reported.

Homosexualy is illegal Iran, which is nsired one of the most reprsive plac the world for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people.

IRAN EXECUT A GAY MAN UNR LABEL OF SODOMY, SAYS EXPERT

Their aths are part of a wave of executns Iran, wh more than 400 the first half of 2014 alone, acrdg to the NGO Iran Human do not know for certa that they were executed for beg gay—one Iranian source says they were, another is vague about their “crim” but lls them “immoral villas. ” If the men were hanged for nsensual homosexualy, however, this uld be another LGBT headache for the Obama admistratn, which has been tryg to walk a tightrope between LGBT human rights on one end and ternatnal polics on the other.

The executn of two gay men, while may not be surprisg, certaly don’t make that “engagement” any ’s operatn also is seen as sential to managg the chaos Iraq and the Islamic State. In the topsy-turvy world that is ternatnal LGBT polics, Iran’s rerd on homosexualy is more a nservative e than a liberal one. Jt a few weeks ago, the Hoe Foreign Affairs Commtee held a hearg on human rights Iran at which progrsiv such as Hosse Alizah of the Internatnal Gay & Lbian Human Rights Commissn ttified about Iran’s hio rerd of crimalizatn and at that same hearg, some of the most vol fens of human rights me om Robert Gee—the tellectual father of the right-wg “relig liberty” movement and, domtilly at least, a zealo opponent of LGBT equaly—and Republin Reps.

Ileana Ros-Lehten, Chris Smh, and Ed Royce, who ed Iran’s human rights rerd as evince agast the Obama admistratn’s policy of be sure, not allowg gays to marry is hardly the same as puttg them to ath.

13 UNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS LEGALLY PUNISHABLE BY ATH

And Democrats as well as Republins routely cricize Iran’s reprsn of gays and lbians. But the fact remas that when Iran persecut gay people, nservativ the Uned Stat sudnly bee enamored of gay rights—and bash the Obama admistratn for not dog enough to fend them.

Th the admistratn is h om all sis—at a moment which is tryg to pursue s dicey diplomatic phenomenon of vokg LGBT equaly as a jtifitn for Amerin foreign polici, which theorist Jasbir Puar lls “homonatnalism, ” has been around for several years. Ironilly, by mandg tolerance of “homosexualy, ” Amerins n hib the tolerance of forms of sexualy and genr inty that are long-standg tradns non-Wtern all the reasons, don’t expect the Obama admistratn, or the LGBT movement, to raise a hue and cry over this latt travty of jtice.

RIGHTS GROUP: IRAN EXECUT 2 GAY MEN OVER SODOMY CHARG

Iran executed ten people on Wednday, cludg a gay man, Karaj, the pal of the Alborz Provce, jt outsi of anizatn Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) reported on Thursday about the latt wave of executns the Islamic Republic. ”Acrdg to experts, Iran’s regime equently the charge of sodomy to impose the ath penalty on gays and lbians. Kazem Mosavi, an Iranian dissint who wr about the cleril regime’s human rights vlatns, told The Jesalem Post that the mullah regime labels same-sex relatns as sodomy and he believ Iman Safavi Rad was gay.

IRAN EXECUT TWO GAY MEN OVER SODOMY CHARG, RIGHTS GROUP SAYS

Iran: Stop Killg Gays (cred: Wikimedia Commons)He noted that the executns this week took place directly after the trip of the top EU foreign relatns official Josep Borrell to Iran to discs Tehran’s re-entry to the nuclear acrd. " Acrdg to a 2008 Brish WikiLeaks diplomatic ble, Iran’s regime has executed between 4, 000-6, 000 gays and lbians sce the natn’s Islamic revolutn 1979. Prev executn JanuaryThe Post reported January that the Islamic Republic ntued s lethal homophobic policy, executg two men based on s anti-gay Sharia law system.

Mosavi said that Khalgaldi was hanged on the charge of rape and the allegatn was phrased a" relig-judicial term that suggts Khagaldi is also prumably homosexual. The regime nceals executns of homosexuals to prevent ternatnal protts.

Three Iranian men have been executed after beg found guilty of charg related to homosexualy, acrdg to a semi-official news men, only intified by their ials, were hanged on Sunday the south-wtern cy of Ahvaz, the pal of Iran's Khuztan provce. It is not clear whether the three men were homosexuals or merely smeared wh homosexualyacced of beg said the men were also nvicted of robbery and other people were also executed on the same day on charg related to dg-alg, rape and is believed that the executn of the three men is the first time for many years that any Iranians have been given ath sentenc on the basis of their the past, Iran has executed nvicts for homosexualy but they were typilly simultaneoly nvicted of other charg that rried the ath sentence, such as male rape.

IRAN EXECUT 2 GAY MEN OVER SODOMY CHARG, RIGHTS GROUP SAYS

"The executns for sodomy might be among the rare s where the Iranian thori adm to havg executed men nvicted of homosexual acts... Mohammad Mostafaei, a proment Iranian lawyer who has reprented people acced of homosexualy and now liv exile Norway, said an email: "It is not clear whether the three men had any lawyers or were tried whout legal reprentatn.

"We should not fet what [print] Mahmoud Ahmadejad said a speech durg his vis to New York for the UN general assembly when he said we don't have homosexuals Iran and no one will be punished for homosexualy the untry. "Ahmadejad famoly said New York: "In Iran, we don't have homosexuals like you do your untry.

IRAN BTALLY EXECUT GAY MAN OVER ‘SODOMY’ CHARG

"In Augt 2010, an 18-year-old Iranian, Ebrahim Hamidi, a client of Mostafaei, faced executn on charg of homosexualy on the basis of "judge's knowledge" which is a legal loophole that allows for subjective judicial lgs where there is no nclive evince. 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.

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ANTI-GAY LAWS PROMOTE VLENCE, DISCRIMATN ST. VCENT

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. The ty natn of Bnei recently ed ternatnal outrage when enacted dranian laws makg gay sex a pal crime. After several weeks of fierce nmnatn by world lears, the sultanate announced wouldn’t enforce the ath penalty for people engagg homosexual acts.

Whether Bnei will keep s word remas to be seen, but the small untry on the island of Borneo near Malaysia is not the only natn where gay men and women are beg sentence for the crime of beg gay some untri is rooted the terpretatn of Sharia law, acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn’s (ILGA) report on state-sponsored, which means “path, ” is not so much a legal system as a gui for helpg people fd life’s answers through Islam, as people unrstand acrdg to tradnal and early terpretatns.

IRAN PURPORTEDLY EXECUT 2 GAY MEN OVER SODOMY CHARG

D., after the ath of the Prophet ath penalty for gay acts is rived om people’s terpretatns of the Quran, Islam’s holy book, and the Hadh, or the acunts of the saygs of the Prophet Muhammad. The acunts differ on the method of killg, and other acunts suggt lser penalti for homosexual acts, pendg on the circumstanc.

TWO GAY MEN ARE HANGED IRAN SIX YEARS AFTER THEY WERE JAILED ON 'SODOMY' CHARG

An creasg number of Islamic scholars are re-examg what the two guis are teachg about same-sex Islamic untri mete out the ath penalty for crim other than homosexualy. On a more posive note, the are the untri where same sex marriage is officially intify the untri where beg gay is still legally punishable by ath, 24/7 Tempo reviewed var reports on human rights and homophobia by non-prof anizatns providg help and legal advice to mori, cludg members of the LGBTQ muny across the world.

YemenIn Yemen, the law stat that unmarried gay men will be punished wh 100 whip lash or one year prison, but married gay men face ath by stong.

IRAN EXECUT TWO MEN FOR BEG GAY

Gay women are to be imprisoned for up to three January 2019 a man Iran was hanged after beg found guilty of havg sex wh another man. Homosexualy was ma a crime punishable by the ath penalty 1979 after the Islamic Revolutn. In 2007, then-Print of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadejad famoly said durg a vis to Columbia Universy: "In Iran, we don't have homosexuals, like your untry.

Two of the most shockg measur were punishg thiev by amputatn and makg homosexual acts and adultery pal crim.

IRAN EXECUT A GAY MAN UNR LABEL OF SODOMY, SAYS EXPERT

MraniaHomosexualy has always been illegal Mrania, the 11th largt untry Ai by area.

This ma homosexualy a crime punishable by ath.

IRAN BTALLY EXECUT GAY MAN OVER ‘SODOMY’ CHARG

Not only did ban gay marriage, but also banned the registratn of gay clubs, societi and other anizatns supportg the LGBT muny.

Public displays of affectn between gay people is also prohibed.

Anyone found guilty of homosexualy n be put prison for up to 14 years.