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Contents:

• 5 SAFT PLAC FOR GAY TRAVELERS IN 2019 (AND THE MOST DANGERO)
• PRI IS A PROTT: THE STGGLE FOR GAY RIGHTS IRAN
• COUNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS LEGALLY PUNISHABLE BY DEATH

5 SAFT PLAC FOR GAY TRAVELERS IN 2019 (AND THE MOST DANGERO)

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.

An timated number om the Amnty Internatnal reports is that more than 5, 000 Gay men and Lbians have been executed sce the 1979 Islamic Revolutn. Current statSce Oct 24, 1979No protectns Homosexualy is illegal Iran, so no protectns for Employment exist if you are an LGBT hog discrimatn Iran? Although the Mizan news agency nied that Sareh and Elham Choubdar were prosecuted bee of their activism, Iranian human rights groups have said they were acced of "spreadg homosexualy", "promotg Christiany", and munitg wh media hostile to the Islamic allegatn about promotn of Christiany is said to have been ma partly bee Sareh has worn a necklace wh a ptn, The US and rabow flags are often disrpected on Iranian social mediaIt's que normal for the Iranian thori to prosecute gay men unr bog charg.

Acrdg to Iranian activists, at least four other people have been executed for beg gay the last 12 months, two of them as recently as e of the same tactic wh two LGBT women marks a new parture. Rabow flags have been set on fire alongsi the US and Israeli flags, and there have been reports of people beg arrted for g LGBT datg a few days ago, the untry's hardle print Ebrahim Raissi referred to homosexuals g the highly offensive word and scribed homosexualy as "dirty behavur" and "morn barbarism" March, Supreme Lear Ali Khamenei scribed homosexualy as part of the "moral pravy" wispread Wtern civilisatn. 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.

COUNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS LEGALLY PUNISHABLE BY DEATH

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. LGBT rights Iran rights of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people IranUpload media WikipediaInstance ofLGBTLotnIranAuthory file Q1275939ReasonatorScholiaPetSnstatisticsWikiMapLotor toolKML fileSearch picted. In pre-Islamic Iran, a tradn of homosexualy existed, however most were tolerant of perasty and sexual activy between two men, pecially the Zoroastrians.

However, a strong homosexual tradn Iran is attted to by Greek historians om the 5th century onward, and so the prohibn apparently had ltle effect on Iranian attus or sexual behavr outsi the ranks of vout Zoroastrians ral eastern Iran. Unr the le of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last monarch of the Pahlavi Dynasty, homosexualy was tolerated, even to the pot of allowg news verage of a same-sex weddg. The new relig ernment that me to be tablished after the 1979 Iranian Revolutn classed transsexuals and transvt wh gays and lbians, who were nmned by Islam and faced the punishment of lashg and ath unr Iran's penal .

Approved by the Iranian Parliament on July 30, 1991, and fally ratified by the Guardian Council on November 28, 1991, articl 108 through 140 distctly talk about homosexualy and s punishments tail.

On September 24, 2007, while speakg at Columbia Universy, Iranian Print Mahmoud Ahmadejad said, answer to the qutn "Iranian women are now nied basic human rights and your ernment has imposed dranian punishments cludg executn on Iranian cizens who are homosexuals. The ai further clarified that "bee of historil, relig and cultural differenc homosexualy is ls mon Iran and the Islamic world than the Wt".

The Uned Natns Human Rights Council has reported that "lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr children are subjected to electric shocks and the admistratn of hormon and strong psychoactive meditns". The new relig ernment that me to be tablished after the 1979 Iranian Revolutn classed transgenr people and crossdrsers wh gays and lbians, who were nmned shah's era and faced the punishment of lashg or even ath unr Iran's penal . UNHCR's 2001 report says that sex reassignment surgery is performed equently and openly Iran, and that homosexual and cross-drsg men, although unrelated to trans inty, would be safe as long as they keep a low profile.

Those who wish to rema "non-operative" (as well as those who cross-drs and/or intify as genrqueer) are nsired their genr assigned at birth, and as such they are likely to face harassment as beg homosexuals and subject to the same laws barrg homosexual acts.

It has been wily reported that homosexual dividuals are prsured to unrgo medil reassignment as part of the Iranian state's opprsn of homosexualy. [9] A 2016 study analyz European and Amerin lerature about the topic as characterizg legalized transgenr surgery at least partly motivated by a sire to enforce a heteronormative bary nceptn of genr, cludg 'forced' surgery for some gay people, and criqu that view as an oversimplifitn.

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.