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- IRAN EXECUT 2 GAY MEN OVER SODOMY CHARG, RIGHTS GROUP SAYS
- 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.
- THE 6 COUNTRI EXECUTE PEOPLE FOR BEG GAY
- IRAN EXECUT GAY TEENAGER VLATN OF TERNATNAL LAW
- IRAN EXECUT 2 GAY MEN ON SODOMY CHARG, HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP REPORTS
- GAY EXECUTN IRAN
- RIGHTS GROUP: IRAN EXECUT 2 GAY MEN OVER SODOMY CHARG
- IRAN SENTENC TWO GAY RIGHTS ACTIVISTS TO ATH
- IRAN PURPORTEDLY EXECUT 2 GAY MEN OVER SODOMY CHARG
IRAN EXECUT 2 GAY MEN OVER SODOMY CHARG, RIGHTS GROUP SAYS
Iran has executed two gay men who were nvicted on charg of sodomy and spent six years on ath row, a rights group reported. * execution of gays in iran *
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, nsired one of the most reprsive plac the world for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people.
Alireza Fazeli Monfared, a 20-year-old gay Iranian man, was killed an alleged "honor killg.
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.
* execution of gays in iran *
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.
THE 6 COUNTRI EXECUTE PEOPLE FOR BEG GAY
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. | * execution of gays in iran *
"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. "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.
IRAN EXECUT GAY TEENAGER VLATN OF TERNATNAL LAW
DUBAI, Uned Arab Emirat (AP) — Iran has executed two gay men who were nvicted on charg of sodomy and spent six years on ath row, a rights group reported. * execution of gays in iran *
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.
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.
IRAN EXECUT 2 GAY MEN ON SODOMY CHARG, HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP REPORTS
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.
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.
GAY EXECUTN IRAN
YemenFollowg a civil war 1994, Yemen adopted Sharia law and clared that homosexual acts uld be punished wh ath.
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.
RIGHTS GROUP: IRAN EXECUT 2 GAY MEN OVER SODOMY CHARG
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. "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.
IRAN SENTENC TWO GAY RIGHTS ACTIVISTS TO ATH
"Ahmadejad famoly said New York: "In Iran, we don't have homosexuals like you do your untry.
"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.
IRAN PURPORTEDLY EXECUT 2 GAY MEN OVER SODOMY CHARG
BERLIN -- Iran’s regime executed a gay adolcent July - the first nfirmed executn of someone nvicted as a juvenile the Islamic Republic 2016 - Amnty Internatnal reported this Afshar, 19, was hanged Arak Prison Iran's Markazi Provce on July 18, after he was nvicted of "forced male-to-male anal terurse" (‘lavat-e be onf’) early 2015, the NGO said a statement Tuday.
Stefan Schan, a LGBT rights activist and spokman for the European 'STOP THE BOMB' mpaign, told The Jesalem Post on Thursday, “Consensual homosexual nduct remas illegal unr Iran’s Sharia law and is punished wh public floggg or even executn. While the Islamic State throws gays om rooftops, the Islamic Republic [of Iran] hangs them. Afshar, who was arrted December, 2014, said that the same-sex relatns were nsensual and the accer had eely engaged prr homosexual relatns.
Volker Beck, a gay German Green Party MP and ternatnal activist to stop the persecutn of LGBTs, told the Post, “Iran is a signatory to a UN treaty that do not pletely ban the ath penalty but lims pal punishment to severe crim and outlaws the executn of juvenil.