A report om Human Rights Watch lls on the ernment of St. Vcent to overturn lonial-era anti-gay laws that have led to a recent wave of vlence and genr discrimatn on the small Caribbean island.
Contents:
- IRAN EXECUT GAY TEENAGER VLATN OF TERNATNAL LAW
- IRAN IS FORCG THOANDS OF GAY PEOPLE TO HAVE GENR REASSIGNMENT SURGERY AGAST THEIR WILL OR FACE EXECUTN
- IRAN'S TOP DIPLOMAT SAYS HIS UNTRY EXECUT GAY PEOPLE BEE OF 'MORAL PRCIPL'
- THE 6 COUNTRI EXECUTE PEOPLE FOR BEG GAY
- IRAN EXECUT A GAY MAN UNR LABEL OF SODOMY, SAYS EXPERT
- IRAN EXECUT TEENAGE BOY FOR BEG GAY
- IRAN PURPORTEDLY EXECUT 2 GAY MEN OVER SODOMY CHARG
- IRAN EXECUT 2 GAY MEN OVER SODOMY CHARG, RIGHTS GROUP SAYS
- IRAN EXECUT 2 GAY MEN ON SODOMY CHARG, HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP REPORTS
- IRAN’S NEW GAY EXECUTNS
- IRAN EXECUT 2 GAY MEN ACCED OF 'FORCIBLE SODOMY,' HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP SAYS
- IRAN EXECUT TWO MEN FOR BEG GAY
- RIGHTS GROUP: IRAN EXECUT 2 GAY MEN OVER SODOMY CHARG
- HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ANTI-GAY LAWS PROMOTE VLENCE, DISCRIMATN ST. VCENT
IRAN EXECUT GAY TEENAGER VLATN OF TERNATNAL LAW
Iran, which is among six untri that impos the ath penalty for homosexualy, reportedly publicly hanged a gay man late January. * iran executes gay *
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.
“Beck said “In the urt se Toonen vs Atralia, Geneva [Uned Natns Human Rights Commtee] termed that the crimal prosecutn of Homosexualy vlat the Internatnal Covenant on Civil and Polil Rights. Our foreign policy should strongly addrs the human rights suatns Iran and Sdi Arabia” The Kgdom of Sdi Arabia like Iran prcrib the ath penalty for gays.
IRAN IS FORCG THOANDS OF GAY PEOPLE TO HAVE GENR REASSIGNMENT SURGERY AGAST THEIR WILL OR FACE EXECUTN
Acrdg to experts, Iran’s regime equently the charge of sodomy to impose the ath penalty on gays and lbians. * iran executes gay *
Iran’s barbaric henchmen promote and enact adly homophobia and force homosexuals to flee the untry. “ Acrdg to a 2008 Brish Wikileaks dispatch, Iran executed between 4, 000 to 6, 000 gays and lbians between the start of the Islamic Revolutn 1979 to 2008. Iran equently execut gay men for same-sex relatns and am the men for rape charg to jtify s Islamic law applitn of lethal homophobia.
IRAN'S TOP DIPLOMAT SAYS HIS UNTRY EXECUT GAY PEOPLE BEE OF 'MORAL PRCIPL'
Iran has executed two gay men who were nvicted on charg of sodomy and spent six years on ath row, a rights group reported. * iran executes gay *
IRAN is forcg thoands of gay people to unrgo genr reassignment surgeri a sick bid to “cleanse” the untry of homosexualy.
Thoands of gay people are forced to unrgo surgery every yearCred: AFP - Getty. However, proment LGTB activists have told Sun Onle that the procr are part of a disturbg programme fuelled by homophobia. Homosexualy is illegal Iran and gay people are hanged om cran the street sick public executns.
THE 6 COUNTRI EXECUTE PEOPLE 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. * iran executes gay *
Iranian-born activist Shadi Am says the Iranian regime, which is ntrolled by relig extremists, view beg gay as an “illns” and that the only cure is to change the person’s genr. She said: “The ernment believ that if you are a gay man your soul is that of a woman and you should change your body. “We thk this is a way to fight the existence of homosexual people bee you change their body and you solve the problem.
“The regime giv gay people two choic - to be arrted as a homosexual and beg punished even executed or change your body. "They are tryg to cleanse the untry of homosexuals. The LGBT rearcher says that Iranian ernment, cludg the Head of the Human Rights missn of Iran, has publicly said "we want to solve the problem, gay people are sick and they need the physil treatment.
IRAN EXECUT A GAY MAN UNR LABEL OF SODOMY, SAYS EXPERT
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. * iran executes gay *
Peter Tatchell, a promemnt Brish human rights mpaigner, nmned the Iranian regime's sire to "eradite homosexualy. He told Sun Onle: “The ayatollah’s are seekg to elimate homosexualy by prsurg or forcg gay men to unrgo genr reassignment surgery to make them ‘women’. "Some gay men agree to bee trans women to protect themselv om prosecutn and executn when they have sex wh men.
"It is motivated by a sire to eradite homosexualy and enforce tradnal male and female genr norms.
IRAN EXECUT TEENAGE BOY FOR BEG GAY
Iran's top diplomat on Monday fend his untry's harsh anti-gay laws, which clus pal punishment for nsensual same-sex sexual acts. Iranian Foreign Mister Javad Zarif on Monday ced "moral prcipl" when asked why Iran execut homosexuals for their sexual orientatn, as he also attacked the US and Israel for "vlatg human rights. "At a prs nference the Iranian pal wh his German unterpart, Heiko Maas, Zarif was asked by Bild reporter Pl Ronzheimer about the ath penalty for gay people the Middle Eastern untry.
"In late January, a 31-year-old man was publicly hanged Iran after beg found guilty of vlatg the untry's anti-gay laws, acrdg to The Jesalem Post.
Read more: Tmp's Iran strategy is failg to rce tensns as a top general warns the threat to US troops is still 'imment'As of March 2019, there were 70 UN member stat that have laws on the books crimalizg nsensual same-sex sexual acts, acrdg to a report om the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn (ILGA). The public ng of a gay uple for nsensual sex Aceh, a remote Indonian provce that practic Shariah law.
IRAN PURPORTEDLY EXECUT 2 GAY MEN OVER SODOMY CHARG
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. But 11 untri, the state acts as the vehicle of ath, threateng executn for homosexual acts.
IRAN EXECUT 2 GAY MEN OVER SODOMY CHARG, RIGHTS GROUP SAYS
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.
IRAN EXECUT 2 GAY MEN ON SODOMY CHARG, HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP REPORTS
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.
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. Iran executed ten people on Wednday, cludg a gay man, Karaj, the pal of the Alborz Provce, jt outsi of anizatn Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) reported on Thursday about the latt wave of executns the Islamic Republic.
IRAN’S NEW GAY EXECUTNS
”Acrdg to experts, Iran’s regime equently the charge of sodomy to impose the ath penalty on gays and lbians. Kazem Mosavi, an Iranian dissint who wr about the cleril regime’s human rights vlatns, told The Jesalem Post that the mullah regime labels same-sex relatns as sodomy and he believ Iman Safavi Rad was gay.
IRAN EXECUT 2 GAY MEN ACCED OF 'FORCIBLE SODOMY,' HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP SAYS
Iran: Stop Killg Gays (cred: Wikimedia Commons)He noted that the executns this week took place directly after the trip of the top EU foreign relatns official Josep Borrell to Iran to discs Tehran’s re-entry to the nuclear acrd. " Acrdg to a 2008 Brish WikiLeaks diplomatic ble, Iran’s regime has executed between 4, 000-6, 000 gays and lbians sce the natn’s Islamic revolutn 1979. Prev executn JanuaryThe Post reported January that the Islamic Republic ntued s lethal homophobic policy, executg two men based on s anti-gay Sharia law system.
Mosavi said that Khalgaldi was hanged on the charge of rape and the allegatn was phrased a" relig-judicial term that suggts Khagaldi is also prumably homosexual.
IRAN EXECUT TWO MEN FOR BEG GAY
The regime nceals executns of homosexuals to prevent ternatnal protts. 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.
RIGHTS GROUP: IRAN EXECUT 2 GAY MEN OVER SODOMY CHARG
Earlier this year, a Mlim cleric told how he was forced to flee the untry after he was attacked for marryg gay upl. 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. 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.
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ANTI-GAY LAWS PROMOTE VLENCE, DISCRIMATN ST. VCENT
Homosexualy is illegal Iran, which is nsired one of the most reprsive plac the world for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people. 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.
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. 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 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.
The executn of two gay men, while may not be surprisg, certaly don’t make that “engagement” any ’s operatn also is seen as sential to managg the chaos Iraq and the Islamic State. In the topsy-turvy world that is ternatnal LGBT polics, Iran’s rerd on homosexualy is more a nservative e than a liberal one.