From discrimatn to ath – beg gay Iran | Brian Whaker | The Guardian

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• FROM DISCRIMATN TO ATH – BEG GAY IRAN
• PRI IS A PROTT: THE STGGLE FOR GAY RIGHTS IRAN

FROM DISCRIMATN TO ATH – BEG GAY IRAN

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.

PRI IS A PROTT: THE STGGLE FOR GAY RIGHTS IRAN

Homosexualy⚢✖ Illegal (ath penalty as punishment)Censorship✖ Other punishmentChangg Genr✖ Legal, but requir surgeryNon-bary genr regnn✖ Not legally regnizedDiscrimatn✖ No protectnsEmployment Discrimatn✖ No protectnsHog Discrimatn✖ No protectnsDonatg Blood✖ Banned (fe ferral)Conversn Therapy✖ Not banned. UnregnizedUnr the Shah's le, the last monarch of the Pahlavi dynasty, homosexualy was crimalised, though was mostly tolerated even to the pot of allowg news verage of a mock same-sex weddg between two men. However those who are acced of Polil dissince or plottg to " overthrow the Islamic Republic " uld be subjected to the ath penalty as well, of which charg are also clud wh Homosexualy.

Zahra Sediqi Hamedani, pl nnue so le nom Sareh, sava me d’tr lbienn et gays que pour survivre, il vala mix quter l’Irak où elle ava été détenue Kurdistan irakien et torturée, et l’Iran, où l’homosexualé t terde et crimalisée. Une sen ante, Elham Chubdar, 24 ans, s’t vu fliger la même pee pour l mêm motifs: « propagatn la rptn sur terre », « promotn l’homosexualé », « promotn du christianisme » et « munitn avec s médias opposés à la République islamique », rapporte ce dimanche 4 septembre l’anisatn Hengaw, qui documente l vlatns s dros humas Kurdistan et note passage que l torés judiciair d’Ourmia sont parmi l pl sévèr à l’égard s accés LGBT +.

Hengaw affirme que Zahra Sediqi Hamedani n’a pas accès à un avot urs sa dé Amnty Internatnal, la trentenaire sub ce sort « en raison son orientatn sexuelle, son inté genre réelle ou supposée et s publitns et déclaratns sur l résex socix en défense s dros s homosexuels, bisexuels, transgenr et s personn tersexué ». Je dois partir immédiatement »Une hre avant prendre la fue, Zahra Sediqi Hamedani ava envoyé une vidéo groupe iranien défense s homosexuels 6Rang (6 Coulrs) dans laquelle elle expliqua sa détentn en Irak où elle travailla, s vgt et un jours torture, son électrocutn, puis sa fue en Iran vois. 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.

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. ” One of those arrted, was allegedly “the head of a women and girls’ work, traffickg Iranian girls to one of the untri the regn for prostutn and guidg and supportg homosexual groups. While Uganda on Wednday, Raisi praised Print Yoweri Meveni for passg a law that creased punishment for homosexual activy, all the way up to pal punishment some s.

“The Wt today is tryg to promote the ia of homosexualy, and by promotg homosexualy they are tryg to end the generatn of human begs, ” Raisi clared after meetg wh Meveni. A few of s provisns, such as crimalizg the act of merely intifyg as gay, were watered down, but the law still expand the fn of crimal homosexual nduct and created a class of offens lled “aggravated homosexualy” that uld be punished by ath – cludg same-sex relatns wh a person “below the age of 18 years” or a person who has been “overpowered” by dgs. When Print Joe Bin said he might cut off humanarian aid to Uganda if the law passed, Ugandan stunts held a monstratn which they chanted, “We don’t want your pro-gay money!

Human rights activist Frank Mugisha told Voice of Ameri News (VOA) on Thursday that Raisi’s remarks were an example of the world’s tyranni g gay rights as a weapon an “unfortunate” worldwi cultural war agast the Wt. Human RightsIran mt immediately stay the executns of two women sentenced to ath for supportg the human rights of lbian, gay, bisexual, trans and genr-diverse (LGBT) people, a large group of UN-appoted pennt human rights experts said on Wednday. Government polici persecute both homosexuals and transgenr dividuals alike for their sexualy and genr intifitn, crimalizg same-sex relatns and genr reassignment Iran has mataed and pursued polici which nmn and harshly punish homosexualy, a practice wily, and appropriately, cricized as a human rights vlatn.

Iranian Treatment of HomosexualsDpe cricism om other natns and human rights anizatns, the Islamic Republic of Iran has mataed s practice of nmng same-sex relatns as illegal and morally rpt. The Iranian Penal Co prohibs all sexual activy outsi of the stutn of marriage, same-sex relatns, and LGBT-related media, wh the ath penalty beg one form of punishment for homosexualy.

Zarif argued that the moral prcipl that gui Iranian ernance nmn homosexual behavr jt as they nmn other personal actns and life choic; therefore punishment for such choic, cludg punishment by executn, is lawful and substantiated. Michael Roth, Germany’s Mister of State the Feral Foreign Office at the time, claimed, “No relig, cultural or ethnic tradn jtifi state persecutn, let alone the executn of homosexuals. Ambassador to Germany at the time of Zarif’s remarks, joed Roth his opposn to the treatment and argued that the executns go agast the UN Universal Declaratn of Human Rights, which clearly tails crimalizatn of homosexualy as a vlatn.

Grenell’s sentiments were a ntuatn of the Tmp admistratn’s mpaign which lnched Febary of 2019 to crimnalize homosexualy var natns cludg Iran and lled on global anizatns like the UN and EU ntribute to the rights have been opposn to the Iranian Penal Co sce the 1930s when Parliament passed legislatn crimalizg such relatnships, and disapproval of this discrimatn has tensified over time.

Psychologil profsnals Iran unsel homosexual dividuals to treat their “sexual viancy, ” and even former print Mahmoud Ahmadejad famoly nied the existence of sexual mori Iran 2007.

All of this culmat to make Iran one of the most discrimatory untri toward homosexuals the world, wh Iran havg executed an timated 4, 000 to 6, 000 homosexual dividuals sce the 1979 Islamic Revolutn. Moreover, enforcement of this law is ongog, and occurs perdilly wh very publicized exampl, as January 2019, when a 31-year-old man was publicly hanged after beg nvicted guilty of homosexual relatns.

Sce nsensual homosexual relatnships are punishable by public executns, the measur also serve a sendary purpose for the Iranian ernment, which is to timidate cizens to not g out.

Genr Assignment IranGiven the severe and dranian ernment polici towards homosexualy Iran, is perhaps suprisg that genr reassignment and the existence of of transgenr dividuals Iran is legally supported. Though personal and societal judgement agast transgenr people Iran is - as many untri - persistant and pervasive, the broar ia of beg transgenr is not nsired a vlatn of Iranian theocratic prcipl, and the ernment do not view such dividuals as they do homosexuals.

Most relig lears only accept those non-bary dividuals who fully plete the transn operatn, while those who do not are perceived as “sick” and n still be arrted for cross-drsg and other stereotypilly homosexual practic. Dpe formal support of transgenr people by the ernment, dividuals are still faced wh discrimatn and persecutn by private cizens and dividuals their personal liv, an experience siar to that of homosexuals Iran. It is clear that the support iated by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomei s ago and the advantage of the clivy of the Persian language provi foundatnal stutnal acceptance of trans cizens Iran, but there are still steps that mt be taken to promote social approval and cultural rporatn of the non-bary Intersectn of Authorized Genr Surgery and Iran’s Homosexual TreatmentWh the approach to both homosexualy and transgenr cizens Iran tablished, a rrelatn between the two to light.