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• IRAN EXECUT 2 GAY MEN OVER SODOMY CHARG, RIGHTS GROUP SAYS
• THE 6 COUNTRI EXECUTE PEOPLE FOR BEG GAY
• IRAN EXECUT 2 GAY MEN ACCED OF 'FORCIBLE SODOMY,' HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP SAYS
• IRAN EXECUT GAY TEENAGER VLATN OF TERNATNAL LAW
• IRAN EXECUT TWO GAY MEN OVER SODOMY CHARG, RIGHTS GROUP SAYS
• RIGHTS GROUP: IRAN EXECUT 2 GAY MEN OVER SODOMY CHARG
• IRAN PURPORTEDLY EXECUT 2 GAY MEN OVER SODOMY CHARG
• IRAN EXECUT 2 GAY MEN ON SODOMY CHARG, HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP REPORTS
• IRAN'S TOP DIPLOMAT SAYS HIS UNTRY EXECUT GAY PEOPLE BEE OF 'MORAL PRCIPL'
• RIGHTS GROUP: IRAN EXECUT 2 GAY MEN OVER SODOMY CHARG

IRAN EXECUT 2 GAY MEN OVER SODOMY CHARG, RIGHTS GROUP SAYS

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.

THE 6 COUNTRI EXECUTE PEOPLE FOR BEG GAY

Homosexualy is illegal Iran, nsired one of the most reprsive plac the world for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people. 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. But 11 untri, the state acts as the vehicle of ath, threateng executn for homosexual acts.

IRAN EXECUT 2 GAY MEN ACCED OF 'FORCIBLE SODOMY,' HUMAN 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 GAY TEENAGER VLATN OF TERNATNAL LAW

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 two gay men on Thursday, acrdg to a human rights group.

IRAN EXECUT TWO GAY MEN OVER SODOMY CHARG, RIGHTS GROUP SAYS

Iran has executed two gay men who were nvicted on charg of sodomy, acrdg to a human rights group. Homosexualy is illegal Iran, and LGBTQ+ muni face discrimatn, prosecutn, and beg year, Insir reported that Alireza Fazeli Monfared, a 20-year-old Iranian man, was killed an alleged "honor killg" by fay members after learng that he was gay. 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.

RIGHTS GROUP: IRAN EXECUT 2 GAY MEN OVER SODOMY CHARG

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. 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’s barbaric henchmen promote and enact adly homophobia and force homosexuals to flee the untry.

IRAN PURPORTEDLY EXECUT 2 GAY MEN OVER SODOMY CHARG

“ 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 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, which is nsired one of the most reprsive plac the world for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people.

IRAN EXECUT 2 GAY MEN ON SODOMY CHARG, HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP REPORTS

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'S TOP DIPLOMAT SAYS HIS UNTRY EXECUT GAY PEOPLE BEE OF 'MORAL PRCIPL'

"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.

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. 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.

RIGHTS GROUP: IRAN EXECUT 2 GAY MEN OVER SODOMY CHARG

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 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. Iran’s legal system explicly prohibs homosexualy, which unr the untry’s penal is punishable by ath.

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 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). MYTH: Beliefs graed Iranian culture manift an ultranservative and aggrsive ernment approach to homosexualy and non-bary genr inty.