Iranian gay man, 20, murred and behead by his fay

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• 13 UNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS LEGALLY PUNISHABLE BY ATH
• IRAN’S NEW GAY EXECUTNSSELECTIVE HORRORCONSERVATIV 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.JAY MICHAELSONUPDATED JUL. 12, 2017 6:09PM EDT / PUBLISHED AUG. 12, 2014 5:55AM EDT  DEHDARI/MEHR NEWS AGENCYTHE TRAGIC HANGG OF TWO “SODOM” IRAN MAY SEEM, THEORY, LIKE AN OBV E FOR U.S. NCERN AND U.S. ACTN. (SIGN A PETN! DEMAND HUMAN RIGHTS!) YET PRACTICE, THOSE MOST ATTENTIVE TO LGBT NCERNS MAY BE THE LEAST EAGER TO PICK THIS FIGHT.AS NA STROCHLIC REPORTED THE PAG SUNDAY, THE TWO MEN, ABDULLAH GHAVAMI CHAHZANJI AND SALMAN GHANBARI CHAHZANJIRI, WERE HANGED SOUTHERN IRAN ON AUGT 6, POSSIBLY FOR NSENSUAL SODOMY. 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 RIGHTS.WE 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.DPE IRAN’S STATE ANTI-SEMISM, THE RECENT ARRT OF U.S. JOURNALISTS, AND THE NTUED OPPRSN OF WOMEN, THE OBAMA ADMISTRATN HAS BEEN ATTEMPTG A RAPPROCHEMENT WH THE IRANIAN REGIME. FENDG OFF IRAN HAWKS CONGRS AND THE D.C. PUNDOCRACY, THE ADMISTRATN HAS ARGUED FOR A POLICY OF NSTCTIVE ENGAGEMENT, PURSUG DIPLOMACY OVER ARY ACTN TO HALT IRAN’S NUCLEAR PROGRAM. THE EXECUTN OF TWO GAY MEN, WHILE MAY NOT BE SURPRISG, CERTALY DON’T MAKE THAT “ENGAGEMENT” ANY EASIER. IRAN’S OPERATN ALSO IS SEEN AS SENTIAL TO MANAGG THE CHAOS IRAQ AND THE ISLAMIC STATE. WH U.S. AIRSTRIK AGAST THE SUNNI ANTS, ON-OFF (NOW FELY OFF) SUPPORT OF IRAQ’S SHIE (EX-)PRIME MISTER NOURI AL-MALIKI, AND THE POSSIBLE DISTEGRATN OF IRAQ, THIS OPERATN—OR AT LEAST NOT OVERT OPPOSN—IS SURELY OF MORE STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE THAN THE LATT HUMAN RIGHTS ABE. CONSERVATIV WHO FAVOR A HAWKISH FOREIGN POLICY WILL CLAIM OTHERWISE, OF URSE. 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 PERSECUTN.BUT 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 ENGAGEMENT.TO BE SURE, NOT ALLOWG GAYS TO MARRY IS HARDLY THE SAME AS PUTTG THEM TO ATH. AND DEMOCRATS AS WELL AS REPUBLINS ROUTELY CRICIZE IRAN’S REPRSN OF GAYS AND LBIANS. 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 AGENDA.THE PHENOMENON OF VOKG LGBT EQUALY AS A JTIFITN FOR AMERIN FOREIGN POLICI, WHICH THEORIST JASBIR PUAR LLS “HOMONATNALISM,” HAS BEEN AROUND FOR SEVERAL YEARS. (PUAR MIGHT PREFER THE TERM “IMPERIALISM.”) EVEN AS NSERVATIV FIGHT LGBT EQUALY AT HOME, PUAR SAYS, THEY CHAMPN OVERSEAS—AS LONG AS SERV THEIR TERTS TO DO SO.MOREOVER, SAYS PUAR, AMERINS EQUENTLY IMPOSE THEIR OWN NCEPTNS OF SEXUAL AND GENR INTY ONTO OTHER CULTUR, STOMPG OUT DIGENO WAYS OF THKG ABOUT SEXUALY AND GENR, AND PERPETUATG THE MYTH THAT SEXUAL DIVERSY IS A WTERN VENTN. 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 CULTURE.FOR 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. AS HORRIFYG AS THIS TRAGEDY IS, WE MIGHT ONLY BE ABLE TO MAKE WORSE. JAY MICHAELSON
• IRAN CHARG FAMO KURDISH SGER WH BEG GAY, FAC EXECUTN
• GAY IRANIAN MAN AD ALLEGED 'HONOR KILLG,' RIGHTS GROUP SAYS
• IRANIAN GAY MAN, 20, MURRED AND BEHEAD BY HIS FAY

13 UNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS LEGALLY PUNISHABLE BY ATH

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. 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.

The ty natn of Bnei recently ed ternatnal outrage when enacted dranian laws makg gay sex a pal crime. After several weeks of fierce nmnatn by world lears, the sultanate announced wouldn’t enforce the ath penalty for people engagg homosexual acts.

Whether Bnei will keep s word remas to be seen, but the small untry on the island of Borneo near Malaysia is not the only natn where gay men and women are beg sentence for the crime of beg gay some untri is rooted the terpretatn of Sharia law, acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn’s (ILGA) report on state-sponsored, which means “path, ” is not so much a legal system as a gui for helpg people fd life’s answers through Islam, as people unrstand acrdg to tradnal and early terpretatns. D., after the ath of the Prophet ath penalty for gay acts is rived om people’s terpretatns of the Quran, Islam’s holy book, and the Hadh, or the acunts of the saygs of the Prophet Muhammad.

IRAN’S NEW GAY EXECUTNSSELECTIVE HORRORCONSERVATIV 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.JAY MICHAELSONUPDATED JUL. 12, 2017 6:09PM EDT / PUBLISHED AUG. 12, 2014 5:55AM EDT  DEHDARI/MEHR NEWS AGENCYTHE TRAGIC HANGG OF TWO “SODOM” IRAN MAY SEEM, THEORY, LIKE AN OBV E FOR U.S. NCERN AND U.S. ACTN. (SIGN A PETN! DEMAND HUMAN RIGHTS!) YET PRACTICE, THOSE MOST ATTENTIVE TO LGBT NCERNS MAY BE THE LEAST EAGER TO PICK THIS FIGHT.AS NA STROCHLIC REPORTED THE PAG SUNDAY, THE TWO MEN, ABDULLAH GHAVAMI CHAHZANJI AND SALMAN GHANBARI CHAHZANJIRI, WERE HANGED SOUTHERN IRAN ON AUGT 6, POSSIBLY FOR NSENSUAL SODOMY. 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 RIGHTS.WE 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.DPE IRAN’S STATE ANTI-SEMISM, THE RECENT ARRT OF U.S. JOURNALISTS, AND THE NTUED OPPRSN OF WOMEN, THE OBAMA ADMISTRATN HAS BEEN ATTEMPTG A RAPPROCHEMENT WH THE IRANIAN REGIME. FENDG OFF IRAN HAWKS CONGRS AND THE D.C. PUNDOCRACY, THE ADMISTRATN HAS ARGUED FOR A POLICY OF NSTCTIVE ENGAGEMENT, PURSUG DIPLOMACY OVER ARY ACTN TO HALT IRAN’S NUCLEAR PROGRAM. THE EXECUTN OF TWO GAY MEN, WHILE MAY NOT BE SURPRISG, CERTALY DON’T MAKE THAT “ENGAGEMENT” ANY EASIER. IRAN’S OPERATN ALSO IS SEEN AS SENTIAL TO MANAGG THE CHAOS IRAQ AND THE ISLAMIC STATE. WH U.S. AIRSTRIK AGAST THE SUNNI ANTS, ON-OFF (NOW FELY OFF) SUPPORT OF IRAQ’S SHIE (EX-)PRIME MISTER NOURI AL-MALIKI, AND THE POSSIBLE DISTEGRATN OF IRAQ, THIS OPERATN—OR AT LEAST NOT OVERT OPPOSN—IS SURELY OF MORE STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE THAN THE LATT HUMAN RIGHTS ABE. CONSERVATIV WHO FAVOR A HAWKISH FOREIGN POLICY WILL CLAIM OTHERWISE, OF URSE. 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 PERSECUTN.BUT 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 ENGAGEMENT.TO BE SURE, NOT ALLOWG GAYS TO MARRY IS HARDLY THE SAME AS PUTTG THEM TO ATH. AND DEMOCRATS AS WELL AS REPUBLINS ROUTELY CRICIZE IRAN’S REPRSN OF GAYS AND LBIANS. 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 AGENDA.THE PHENOMENON OF VOKG LGBT EQUALY AS A JTIFITN FOR AMERIN FOREIGN POLICI, WHICH THEORIST JASBIR PUAR LLS “HOMONATNALISM,” HAS BEEN AROUND FOR SEVERAL YEARS. (PUAR MIGHT PREFER THE TERM “IMPERIALISM.”) EVEN AS NSERVATIV FIGHT LGBT EQUALY AT HOME, PUAR SAYS, THEY CHAMPN OVERSEAS—AS LONG AS SERV THEIR TERTS TO DO SO.MOREOVER, SAYS PUAR, AMERINS EQUENTLY IMPOSE THEIR OWN NCEPTNS OF SEXUAL AND GENR INTY ONTO OTHER CULTUR, STOMPG OUT DIGENO WAYS OF THKG ABOUT SEXUALY AND GENR, AND PERPETUATG THE MYTH THAT SEXUAL DIVERSY IS A WTERN VENTN. 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 CULTURE.FOR 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. AS HORRIFYG AS THIS TRAGEDY IS, WE MIGHT ONLY BE ABLE TO MAKE WORSE. JAY MICHAELSON

The acunts differ on the method of killg, and other acunts suggt lser penalti for homosexual acts, pendg on the circumstanc. An creasg number of Islamic scholars are re-examg what the two guis are teachg about same-sex Islamic untri mete out the ath penalty for crim other than homosexualy. On a more posive note, the are the untri where same sex marriage is officially intify the untri where beg gay is still legally punishable by ath, 24/7 Tempo reviewed var reports on human rights and homophobia by non-prof anizatns providg help and legal advice to mori, cludg members of the LGBTQ muny across the world.

YemenIn Yemen, the law stat that unmarried gay men will be punished wh 100 whip lash or one year prison, but married gay men face ath by stong.

IRAN CHARG FAMO KURDISH SGER WH BEG GAY, FAC EXECUTN

Gay women are to be imprisoned for up to three January 2019 a man Iran was hanged after beg found guilty of havg sex wh another man.

Homosexualy was ma a crime punishable by the ath penalty 1979 after the Islamic Revolutn.

GAY IRANIAN MAN AD ALLEGED 'HONOR KILLG,' RIGHTS GROUP SAYS

In 2007, then-Print of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadejad famoly said durg a vis to Columbia Universy: "In Iran, we don't have homosexuals, like your untry. Two of the most shockg measur were punishg thiev by amputatn and makg homosexual acts and adultery pal crim.

MraniaHomosexualy has always been illegal Mrania, the 11th largt untry Ai by area. This ma homosexualy a crime punishable by ath.

Not only did ban gay marriage, but also banned the registratn of gay clubs, societi and other anizatns supportg the LGBT muny.

IRANIAN GAY MAN, 20, MURRED AND BEHEAD BY HIS FAY

Public displays of affectn between gay people is also prohibed. Anyone found guilty of homosexualy n be put prison for up to 14 years. While this law is applied across the entire untry, 12 northern stat have their own laws, punishg gay men and women wh ath by stong.

Gay men and women live fear. The subject of homosexualy is a taboo.