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- THE 6 COUNTRI EXECUTE PEOPLE FOR BEG GAY
- SDI MASS EXECUTN – FIVE BEHEAD VICTIMS WERE GAY LOVERS URT DOCS CLAIM AMID FEARS THEY WERE TORTURED TO TERROR NFSNS
- IRAN PURPORTEDLY EXECUT 2 GAY MEN OVER SODOMY CHARG
- IRAN EXECUT TEENAGE BOY FOR BEG GAY
- 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 A GAY MAN UNR LABEL OF SODOMY, SAYS EXPERT
- IRAN EXECUT 2 GAY MEN OVER SODOMY CHARG, RIGHTS GROUP SAYS
- IRAN’S NEW GAY EXECUTNSSELECTIVE HORRORCONSERVATIV MAY BE THE ON VOICG THE LOUST OUTRAGE AT THE HANGG OF TWO GAY IRANIAN MEN—BUT NOT BEE THEY’VE SUDNLY BEE SUPPORTERS OF LGBT HUMAN RIGHTS.JAY MICHAELSONUPDATED JUL. 12, 2017 6:09PM EDT / PUBLISHED AUG. 12, 2014 5:55AM EDT DEHDARI/MEHR NEWS AGENCYTHE TRAGIC HANGG OF TWO “SODOM” IRAN MAY SEEM, THEORY, LIKE AN OBV E FOR U.S. NCERN AND U.S. ACTN. (SIGN A PETN! DEMAND HUMAN RIGHTS!) YET PRACTICE, THOSE MOST ATTENTIVE TO LGBT NCERNS MAY BE THE LEAST EAGER TO PICK THIS FIGHT.AS NA STROCHLIC REPORTED THE PAG SUNDAY, THE TWO MEN, ABDULLAH GHAVAMI CHAHZANJI AND SALMAN GHANBARI CHAHZANJIRI, WERE HANGED SOUTHERN IRAN ON AUGT 6, POSSIBLY FOR NSENSUAL SODOMY. 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 RIGHTS.WE 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.DPE IRAN’S STATE ANTI-SEMISM, THE RECENT ARRT OF U.S. JOURNALISTS, AND THE NTUED OPPRSN OF WOMEN, THE OBAMA ADMISTRATN HAS BEEN ATTEMPTG A RAPPROCHEMENT WH THE IRANIAN REGIME. FENDG OFF IRAN HAWKS CONGRS AND THE D.C. PUNDOCRACY, THE ADMISTRATN HAS ARGUED FOR A POLICY OF NSTCTIVE ENGAGEMENT, PURSUG DIPLOMACY OVER ARY ACTN TO HALT IRAN’S NUCLEAR PROGRAM. THE EXECUTN OF TWO GAY MEN, WHILE MAY NOT BE SURPRISG, CERTALY DON’T MAKE THAT “ENGAGEMENT” ANY EASIER. IRAN’S OPERATN ALSO IS SEEN AS SENTIAL TO MANAGG THE CHAOS IRAQ AND THE ISLAMIC STATE. WH U.S. AIRSTRIK AGAST THE SUNNI ANTS, ON-OFF (NOW FELY OFF) SUPPORT OF IRAQ’S SHIE (EX-)PRIME MISTER NOURI AL-MALIKI, AND THE POSSIBLE DISTEGRATN OF IRAQ, THIS OPERATN—OR AT LEAST NOT OVERT OPPOSN—IS SURELY OF MORE STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE THAN THE LATT HUMAN RIGHTS ABE. CONSERVATIV WHO FAVOR A HAWKISH FOREIGN POLICY WILL CLAIM OTHERWISE, OF URSE. 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 PERSECUTN.BUT 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 ENGAGEMENT.TO BE SURE, NOT ALLOWG GAYS TO MARRY IS HARDLY THE SAME AS PUTTG THEM TO 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 AGENDA.THE PHENOMENON OF VOKG LGBT EQUALY AS A JTIFITN FOR AMERIN FOREIGN POLICI, WHICH THEORIST JASBIR PUAR LLS “HOMONATNALISM,” HAS BEEN AROUND FOR SEVERAL YEARS. (PUAR MIGHT PREFER THE TERM “IMPERIALISM.”) EVEN AS NSERVATIV FIGHT LGBT EQUALY AT HOME, PUAR SAYS, THEY CHAMPN OVERSEAS—AS LONG AS SERV THEIR TERTS TO DO SO.MOREOVER, SAYS PUAR, AMERINS EQUENTLY IMPOSE THEIR OWN NCEPTNS OF SEXUAL AND GENR INTY ONTO OTHER CULTUR, STOMPG OUT DIGENO WAYS OF THKG ABOUT SEXUALY AND GENR, AND PERPETUATG THE MYTH THAT SEXUAL DIVERSY IS A WTERN VENTN. 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 CULTURE.FOR 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. AS HORRIFYG AS THIS TRAGEDY IS, WE MIGHT ONLY BE ABLE TO MAKE WORSE. JAY MICHAELSON
- PREACHER ASKS GOD TO KILL GAY PEOPLE IN “SLOW, PAFUL DEATH”
THE 6 COUNTRI EXECUTE PEOPLE FOR BEG GAY
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The public ng of a gay uple for nsensual sex Aceh, a remote Indonian provce that practic Shariah law. They had nsensual the Aceh provce of Indonia, homosexualy is a crime that n be punished this btal and gradg More: Disturbg Details of Executns Emerge From Chechnya's 'Gay Torture Camps': ReportEverywhere the world, LGBTQ people are routely harassed, discrimated agast, beaten, and even murred for simply beg who they are. In 74 untri around the world, homosexualy remas a crime — an egreg nial of equal rights unr the law for untls people.
SDI MASS EXECUTN – FIVE BEHEAD VICTIMS WERE GAY LOVERS URT DOCS CLAIM AMID FEARS THEY WERE TORTURED TO TERROR NFSNS
Acrdg to experts, Iran’s regime equently the charge of sodomy to impose the ath penalty on gays and lbians. * gay executions *
But 11 untri, the state acts as the vehicle of ath, threateng executn for homosexual acts. Half of the untri never follow through on this absolute threat, but e other methods to strip a person of are the six untri that actually kill people for engagg homosexual acts. But the polil ele, by nature, shap the laws and their extremely nservative worldview classifi homosexualy as a crime punishable by ath.
IRAN PURPORTEDLY EXECUT 2 GAY MEN OVER SODOMY CHARG
Iran has executed two gay men who were nvicted on charg of sodomy and spent six years on ath row, a rights group reported. * gay executions *
Stong to ath is another form of public executn a untry that kills hundreds of people each More: Taiwan Be First Place Asia to Legalize Same-Sex MarriageNigeriaRunng unter to much of the rt of the world, Nigeria’s print cid to strengthen anti-homosexual laws 2014. Earlier this year, two men were shot public by the terrorist group after beg found havg More: Lebanon Jt Celebrated Its Very First Gay Pri ParaSudanThe first two tim a person gets ught havg gay sex Sudan n lead to 100 lash and imprisonment up to five years. YemenFollowg a civil war 1994, Yemen adopted Sharia law and clared that homosexual acts uld be punished wh ath.
IRAN EXECUT TEENAGE BOY FOR BEG GAY
Conservativ may be the on voicg the loust outrage at the hangg of two gay Iranian men—but not bee they’ve sudnly bee supporters of LGBT human rights. * gay executions *
In recent years, another civil war has torn the untry apart and the ensug chaos has led to the executns of numero gay men.
Acrdg to one man profiled Narratively, 14 gay men were executed by Al Qaeda 2016 the pal cy of An. FIVE of the men btally behead Sdi Arabia were secret gay lovers tortured to terror nfsns, 's been claimed. 5 The persecutn of gay people has ntued unr Sdi Arabia's 'morate' Crown Prce Mohammad b SalmanCred: EPA.
The Shia man's "homosexual relatnships" appeared paperwork allegg he also nfsed to hatg the Sdi state, documents obtaed by CNN show. Homosexualy is punishable by ath the Gulf state which strictly adher to Sharia law. The backward untry execut men and women for engagg homosexual activy although do release any official figur about how many gay people beheads every year.
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.
In 2009, a man named Ahmed b ‘Adhaib b ‘Askar al-Shamlani al-‘Anzi was executed for a number of charg cludg “homosexual terurse" and posssn of pornography. And the persecutn of gay people has ntued unr supposedly morate Crown Prce Mohammad b Salman, say mpaigners.
IRAN EXECUT A GAY MAN UNR LABEL OF SODOMY, SAYS EXPERT
The Islamic Republic of Iran publicly hanged a 31-year-old Iranian man after he was found guilty of charg related to vlatns of Iran’s anti-gay laws, acrdg to the state-ntrolled Iranian Stunts’ News unintified man was hanged on January 10 the southwtern cy of Kazeroon based on crimal vlatns of “lavat-e be onf” – sexual terurse between two men, as well as kidnappg charg, acrdg to ISNA. Iran’s radil sharia law system prcrib the ath penalty for gay sex.
“Next time Foreign Mister Zarif speaks Washgton, the host and dience should ask him why his regime is one of the top executner of gays the world.
”Acrdg to a 2008 Brish WikiLeaks dispatch, Iran’s mullah regime executed “between 4, 000 and 6, 000 gays and lbians” sce the Islamic Revolutn 1979.
IRAN EXECUT 2 GAY MEN OVER SODOMY CHARG, RIGHTS GROUP SAYS
“Iran is not only the most dangero threat to Israel’s secury, is also a champn the state murr of actual or perceived homosexuals, ” said Volker Beck, a German Party Green Party polician and a lecturer at the Center for Studi Relig Scienc (CERES) at the Ruhr Universy Bochum. ”Beck played a key role brgg about marriage equaly Germany for gays and lbians. ” The statement about cizens of Kazeroon uld not be penntly 2016, The Jesalem Post reported Iran’s regime had executed a gay adolcent that year – the first nfirmed executn of someone nvicted as a juvenile the Islamic Afshar, 19, was hanged Arak Prison Iran’s Markazi Provce on July 18, 2016, after he was nvicted of “forced male-to-male anal terurse” early 2011, Iran’s regime executed three Iranian men after beg found guilty of charg related to M.
Hochre, a spokman for the Hirschfeld-Eddy-Stiftung Foundatn, which fights to advance the rights of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people, told the Post:“Iran is one of the worst stat for the persecutn of LGBTI. The state publicly and regularly boasts of the executn of gay men.
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.
IRAN’S NEW GAY EXECUTNSSELECTIVE HORRORCONSERVATIV MAY BE THE ON VOICG THE LOUST OUTRAGE AT THE HANGG OF TWO GAY IRANIAN MEN—BUT NOT BEE THEY’VE SUDNLY BEE SUPPORTERS OF LGBT HUMAN RIGHTS.JAY MICHAELSONUPDATED JUL. 12, 2017 6:09PM EDT / PUBLISHED AUG. 12, 2014 5:55AM EDT DEHDARI/MEHR NEWS AGENCYTHE TRAGIC HANGG OF TWO “SODOM” IRAN MAY SEEM, THEORY, LIKE AN OBV E FOR U.S. NCERN AND U.S. ACTN. (SIGN A PETN! DEMAND HUMAN RIGHTS!) YET PRACTICE, THOSE MOST ATTENTIVE TO LGBT NCERNS MAY BE THE LEAST EAGER TO PICK THIS FIGHT.AS NA STROCHLIC REPORTED THE PAG SUNDAY, THE TWO MEN, ABDULLAH GHAVAMI CHAHZANJI AND SALMAN GHANBARI CHAHZANJIRI, WERE HANGED SOUTHERN IRAN ON AUGT 6, POSSIBLY FOR NSENSUAL SODOMY. 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 RIGHTS.WE 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.DPE IRAN’S STATE ANTI-SEMISM, THE RECENT ARRT OF U.S. JOURNALISTS, AND THE NTUED OPPRSN OF WOMEN, THE OBAMA ADMISTRATN HAS BEEN ATTEMPTG A RAPPROCHEMENT WH THE IRANIAN REGIME. FENDG OFF IRAN HAWKS CONGRS AND THE D.C. PUNDOCRACY, THE ADMISTRATN HAS ARGUED FOR A POLICY OF NSTCTIVE ENGAGEMENT, PURSUG DIPLOMACY OVER ARY ACTN TO HALT IRAN’S NUCLEAR PROGRAM. THE EXECUTN OF TWO GAY MEN, WHILE MAY NOT BE SURPRISG, CERTALY DON’T MAKE THAT “ENGAGEMENT” ANY EASIER. IRAN’S OPERATN ALSO IS SEEN AS SENTIAL TO MANAGG THE CHAOS IRAQ AND THE ISLAMIC STATE. WH U.S. AIRSTRIK AGAST THE SUNNI ANTS, ON-OFF (NOW FELY OFF) SUPPORT OF IRAQ’S SHIE (EX-)PRIME MISTER NOURI AL-MALIKI, AND THE POSSIBLE DISTEGRATN OF IRAQ, THIS OPERATN—OR AT LEAST NOT OVERT OPPOSN—IS SURELY OF MORE STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE THAN THE LATT HUMAN RIGHTS ABE. CONSERVATIV WHO FAVOR A HAWKISH FOREIGN POLICY WILL CLAIM OTHERWISE, OF URSE. 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 PERSECUTN.BUT 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 ENGAGEMENT.TO BE SURE, NOT ALLOWG GAYS TO MARRY IS HARDLY THE SAME AS PUTTG THEM TO 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 AGENDA.THE PHENOMENON OF VOKG LGBT EQUALY AS A JTIFITN FOR AMERIN FOREIGN POLICI, WHICH THEORIST JASBIR PUAR LLS “HOMONATNALISM,” HAS BEEN AROUND FOR SEVERAL YEARS. (PUAR MIGHT PREFER THE TERM “IMPERIALISM.”) EVEN AS NSERVATIV FIGHT LGBT EQUALY AT HOME, PUAR SAYS, THEY CHAMPN OVERSEAS—AS LONG AS SERV THEIR TERTS TO DO SO.MOREOVER, SAYS PUAR, AMERINS EQUENTLY IMPOSE THEIR OWN NCEPTNS OF SEXUAL AND GENR INTY ONTO OTHER CULTUR, STOMPG OUT DIGENO WAYS OF THKG ABOUT SEXUALY AND GENR, AND PERPETUATG THE MYTH THAT SEXUAL DIVERSY IS A WTERN VENTN. 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 CULTURE.FOR 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. AS HORRIFYG AS THIS TRAGEDY IS, WE MIGHT ONLY BE ABLE TO MAKE WORSE. JAY MICHAELSON
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. 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. Alireza Fazeli Monfared, a 20-year-old gay Iranian man, was killed an alleged "honor killg.
PREACHER ASKS GOD TO KILL GAY PEOPLE IN “SLOW, PAFUL DEATH”
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.