Ali Fazeli Monfared was allegedly killed by fay members who found out he was gay after he received a rd exemptg him om ary service.
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GAY IRANIAN MAN AD ALLEGED 'HONOR KILLG,' RIGHTS GROUP SAYS
Iran 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. | * iranian lgbt *
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. For example, Ebrahim Raisi, who is now Iran’s print, said 2014 (when he head Iran’s judiciary) that homosexualy is “nothg but savagery.
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. * iranian lgbt *
She says that the officer appeared to be foced on prsg charg related to the protts and therefore did not pursue the allegatns of homosexualy. In addn to the outright homophobic reactns, an old qutn has rurfaced: "Is the 'right time' to speak of LGBTQ rights Iran? They also note that rponse, top officials of the Islamic Republic are tensifyg their homophobic rhetoric.
He said those untri were no place to "set norms for the world, sce they are phg humany towards the brk of extctn by promotg immoral behavur like homosexualy".
Recently, dozens helped a gay bety blogger make a vio llage which each of them repeated a sgle sentence: "We are untls.
Iran’s Islamist regime persecut and discrimat agast lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) cizens. * iranian lgbt *
After her release Iraq, Sedighi-Hamadani attempted to cross to Turkey om Iran to seek asylum, Amnty said, but November, the Intelligence Organizatn of the Revolutnary Guards said that a “lear” of a human traffickg work “volved smugglg Iranian girls and women” to neighborg untri and directg them to homosexual groups unr “protectn of [foreign] telligence agenci” had been ught. In a letter sent to the Chief Jtice of Iran, Gholam-Hosse Mohseni-Ejei, Amnty said Sedighi-Hamadani was acced January by the prosecutor Umieh of “spreadg rptn on earth” cludg through “promotg homosexualy, ” “munitn wh anti-Islamic Republic media channels, ” and “promotg Christiany. MYTH: Beliefs graed Iranian culture manift an ultranservative and aggrsive ernment approach to homosexualy and non-bary genr inty.
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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. As a rult, homosexual dividuals Iran face legal challeng and nsequenc distct om heterosexual and cisgenr people.
Do LGBT rights Iran exist? The Iranian regime is anti-diversy, anti-gay, anti-Amerin and anti-everyone-who-isn’t-Mlim. The answer is no. * iranian lgbt *
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. Temporary marriage ntracts are one exceptn which prents a way to have legal relatns, but homosexuals are not afford this optn. 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.