Rights Group: Iran Execut 2 Gay Men over Sodomy Charg

Contents:

• IRAN REPORTEDLY HANGS GAY MAN
• TWO GAY MEN ARE HANGED IRAN SIX YEARS AFTER THEY WERE JAILED ON 'SODOMY' CHARG
• GAY HANGG IRAN: ATROCI AND IMPERSONATNS
• IRAN’S NEW GAY EXECUTNS
• IRAN PURPORTEDLY EXECUT 2 GAY MEN OVER SODOMY CHARG
• TEEN EXECUTED FOR GAY SEX IRAN IS LATT LONG TREND
• HORRIFIC KILLG OF YOUNG GAY MAN PUTS PLIGHT OF IRAN'S LGBT COMMUNY IN SPOTLIGHT
• GAY HANGG IRAN: ATROCI AND IMPERSONATNS
• VIGIL MARKS 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF IRAN HANGG TWO GAY TEENS
• IRAN EXECUT 2 GAY MEN OVER SODOMY CHARG, RIGHTS GROUP SAYS
• RIGHTS GROUP: IRAN EXECUT 2 GAY MEN OVER SODOMY CHARG

IRAN REPORTEDLY HANGS GAY MAN

BERLIN – The Islamic Republic's mpaign to execute gay Iranians is believed to have rulted the public hangg this month of a man intified only as “CH.

”Acrdg to an onle report last week Europe’s largt gay news service, Pk News, Iran’s judiciary imposed the ath penalty on Ch.

”Iran has ramped up over the years s persecutn of the untry’s Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr Brish Guardian earlier this month translated remarks om Grand Ayatollah Abdollah Javadi-Amoli, who said, “Even animals... Dogs and pigs don’t engage this disgtg act [homosexualy], but yet they [Wtern policians] pass laws favor of them their parliaments. ”Stuart Appelbm, a leadg US gay activist and head of a large tra unn, wrote to The Jesalem Post by email on Saturday: “The fact that Iran promot and tolerat this kd of actn remov self om the muny of civilized natns.

TWO GAY MEN ARE HANGED IRAN SIX YEARS AFTER THEY WERE JAILED ON 'SODOMY' CHARG

”Yoav Sivan, an Israeli journalist who served on the boards of Aguda – the Israeli Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr Associatn and the Jesalem Open Hoe and the Israeli board of the World Jewish Congrs, wrote to the Post on Saturday: “Unfortunately, we have bee ured to hearg such homophobic exprsns g om top Iranians. We should note that the exprsn is not jt homophobic but jt as much anti-Wtern by scribg tolerance toward a mory as a shortg of Wtern polics.

GAY HANGG IRAN: ATROCI AND IMPERSONATNS

”Gay sex is punishable by ath unr Iranian ”so long as both the active and passive partners are mature, of sound md, and have acted of ee will. Shoots them on the siwalk, go to their hom, culls the Inter, tak people away at night, ” he rights activists, gay journalists, and LGBT publitns cricized Human Rights Watch for failg to foc on the rise of persecutn of gays the Islamic onle publitn Queerty wrote an article tled, “Disgraced Human Rights Watch Director Stt Long Qus...

”After Long’s parture, HRW issued a rpected study 2010 on the persecutn faced by Iran’s LGBT has praised anti-Israel advot such as Sarah Schulman, who claimed that Israel is mountg a “pkwashg” mpaign to promot s gay rights rerd to blunt cricism of the Jewish state.

IRAN’S NEW GAY EXECUTNS

The Islamic Republic of Iran publicly hanged a 31-year-old Iranian man after he was found guilty of charg related to vlatns of Iran’s anti-gay laws, acrdg to the state-ntrolled Iranian Stunts’ News unintified man was hanged on January 10 the southwtern cy of Kazeroon based on crimal vlatns of “lavat-e be onf” – sexual terurse between two men, as well as kidnappg charg, acrdg to ISNA. “Next time Foreign Mister Zarif speaks Washgton, the host and dience should ask him why his regime is one of the top executner of gays the world. ”Acrdg to a 2008 Brish WikiLeaks dispatch, Iran’s mullah regime executed “between 4, 000 and 6, 000 gays and lbians” sce the Islamic Revolutn 1979.

IRAN PURPORTEDLY EXECUT 2 GAY MEN OVER SODOMY CHARG

“Iran is not only the most dangero threat to Israel’s secury, is also a champn the state murr of actual or perceived homosexuals, ” said Volker Beck, a German Party Green Party polician and a lecturer at the Center for Studi Relig Scienc (CERES) at the Ruhr Universy Bochum. ” The statement about cizens of Kazeroon uld not be penntly 2016, The Jesalem Post reported Iran’s regime had executed a gay adolcent that year – the first nfirmed executn of someone nvicted as a juvenile the Islamic Afshar, 19, was hanged Arak Prison Iran’s Markazi Provce on July 18, 2016, after he was nvicted of “forced male-to-male anal terurse” early 2011, Iran’s regime executed three Iranian men after beg found guilty of charg related to M. Hochre, a spokman for the Hirschfeld-Eddy-Stiftung Foundatn, which fights to advance the rights of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people, told the Post:“Iran is one of the worst stat for the persecutn of LGBTI.

TEEN EXECUTED FOR GAY SEX IRAN IS LATT LONG TREND

The two men were sentenced to ath for 'forced sexual terurse between two men' and died the northwtern cy of MaraghehIran is nsired one of the most reprsive plac the world for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr men's inti were nfirmed a report by the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) on add state-n outlets Iran had yet to announce the Vojoudi, who fled Iran and ped to Germany, told The Jesalem Post that the untry's prisons are 'full of people who have mted no crime'. LGBTQ+ rights mpaigner Peter Tatchell also told the publitn the executn follows 'a long-standg regime policy of the state-sanctned murr of gay men, often on disputed charg after unfair trials that have been nmned by Amnty Internatnal and Human Rights Watch' add: 'The ternatnal muny mt impose Magnsky sanctns on the regime officials, judg and prison staff who thorized the executns - and on those rponsible for the many other human rights s of abe Iran'.

Two men Iran, where homosexualy is illegal, have been executed after spendg six years on ath rowHe said: 'The Ayatollah regime Iran jt executed two gay men for the crime of sodomy Iran. ' Last May Alireza Fazeli Monfared, 20, who intified as gay and non-bary, was abducted by several male relativ and murred Ahvaz, Khuztan provce Iran. 'Unr Iranian law, sodomy, rape, adultery, armed robbery and murr are among crim that n lead to the ath year a UN report found that Iran 'gay, bisexual and transgenr children were subjected to electric shocks and the admistratn of hormon and strong psychoactive meditns', Pk News reported.

Alireza Fazeli Monfared, 20, (pictured) was allegedly taken by the three male fay members and murredIn Febary 2021, an Iranian cleric Ayatollah Abbas Tabrizian claimed that the Covid-19 vacce turns people gay, on msagg platform Telegram, to almost 210, 000 followers. 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.

HORRIFIC KILLG OF YOUNG GAY MAN PUTS PLIGHT OF IRAN'S LGBT COMMUNY IN SPOTLIGHT

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.

Jt a few weeks ago, the Hoe Foreign Affairs Commtee held a hearg on human rights Iran at which progrsiv such as Hosse Alizah of the Internatnal Gay & Lbian Human Rights Commissn ttified about Iran’s hio rerd of crimalizatn and at that same hearg, some of the most vol fens of human rights me om Robert Gee—the tellectual father of the right-wg “relig liberty” movement and, domtilly at least, a zealo opponent of LGBT equaly—and Republin Reps. Ileana Ros-Lehten, Chris Smh, and Ed Royce, who ed Iran’s human rights rerd as evince agast the Obama admistratn’s policy of be sure, not allowg gays to marry is hardly the same as puttg them to ath.

GAY HANGG IRAN: ATROCI AND IMPERSONATNS

But the fact remas that when Iran persecut gay people, nservativ the Uned Stat sudnly bee enamored of gay rights—and bash the Obama admistratn for not dog enough to fend them. Th the admistratn is h om all sis—at a moment which is tryg to pursue s dicey diplomatic phenomenon of vokg LGBT equaly as a jtifitn for Amerin foreign polici, which theorist Jasbir Puar lls “homonatnalism, ” has been around for several years. Ironilly, by mandg tolerance of “homosexualy, ” Amerins n hib the tolerance of forms of sexualy and genr inty that are long-standg tradns non-Wtern all the reasons, don’t expect the Obama admistratn, or the LGBT movement, to raise a hue and cry over this latt travty of jtice.

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...

VIGIL MARKS 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF IRAN HANGG TWO GAY TEENS

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.

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

"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.

"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. 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.

Homosexualy is illegal Iran, which is nsired one of the most reprsive plac the world for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people. Amnty Internatnal this week cried the hangg of gay Iranian teenager, Hassan Afshar, as proof of the untry's "sickeng enthiasm for puttg juvenil to ath" and as a "ntraventn of ternatnal law" that "knows no bounds.

RIGHTS GROUP: IRAN EXECUT 2 GAY MEN OVER SODOMY CHARG

Still, Iran hasn't shied om the most extreme penalty when prosecutg even the youngt men for gay sex and other crim unr Islamic law. Another Uned Natns vtigatn this year found that the ath penalty reached a 20-year high 2015, wh 966 people Islamic law, the offens -- lled hodud -- n clu "sultg the Prophet of Islam, " extra-maral sex, and nsensual gay sex.

Unr hodud, ath is one of four possible punishments, which uld also clu ccifixn, banishment, and amputatg the right arm and left are 12 plac where you n be killed by your untry for gay sex. The creepg turn toward religsy is beg felt now Indonia, for example, which allowed Aceh provce to implement Sharia Law last year, requirg 100 lash wh a ne for gay the Associated Prs reports that Indonia's top urt is nsirg whether gay sex ought to be a crimal offense natnwi.