Iran execut 2 gay men over sodomy charg, rights group says

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• IRAN EXECUT 2 GAY MEN OVER SODOMY CHARG, RIGHTS GROUP SAYS
• ALIREZA FAZELI MONFARED WANTED TO LIVE AS A EE GAY MAN THE WT. HIS FAY IRAN BEHEAD HIM DAYS BEFORE HIS DREAM ME TE, SAY ACTIVISTS.
• IRAN EXECUT 2 GAY MEN ACCED OF 'FORCIBLE SODOMY,' HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP SAYS
• AMNTY REPORTS IRAN EXECUTED 2 GAY MEN OVER SODOMY CHARG
• RIGHTS GROUP: IRAN EXECUT 2 GAY MEN OVER SODOMY CHARG
• IRAN EXECUT TWO GAY MEN OVER SODOMY CHARG, RIGHTS GROUP SAYS
• IRAN EXECUT GAY TEENAGER VLATN OF TERNATNAL LAW
• THE 6 COUNTRI EXECUTE PEOPLE FOR BEG GAY
• IRAN IS FORCG THOANDS OF GAY PEOPLE TO HAVE GENR REASSIGNMENT SURGERY AGAST THEIR WILL OR FACE EXECUTN
• IRAN PURPORTEDLY EXECUT 2 GAY MEN OVER SODOMY CHARG
• IRANIAN OFFICIAL PROMOTG PIETY DISMISSED AFTER ALLEGED GAY SEX TAPE EMERG

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. Homosexualy is illegal Iran, nsired one of the most reprsive plac the world for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people.

ALIREZA FAZELI MONFARED WANTED TO LIVE AS A EE GAY MAN THE WT. HIS FAY IRAN BEHEAD HIM DAYS BEFORE HIS DREAM ME TE, SAY ACTIVISTS.

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. Alireza Fazeli Monfared, a 20-year-old gay Iranian man, was killed an alleged "honor killg.

IRAN EXECUT 2 GAY MEN ACCED OF 'FORCIBLE SODOMY,' HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP SAYS

Alireza Fazeli Monfared, a 20-year old Iranian man, was behead what an Iranian human-rights group says was an "honor killg" by fay members after they learned he was gay. But Iranian human-rights activists have said is emblematic of a daily persecutn that gay people Iran face. "The Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia' is g up on Monday (May 17), " Okan Sengun, the executive director and founr of the LGBT Asylum Project, said.

AMNTY REPORTS IRAN EXECUTED 2 GAY MEN OVER SODOMY CHARG

Homosexualy is nsired a psychologil disease IranWhile beg gay is forbidn Iran and punishable by ath, the law allows gay men to fo ary service. "Homosexualy is also nsired a psychologil disease Iran, and the ary's ary board n exempt a gay man om service if they are emed homosexual after an examatn, " she add.

RIGHTS GROUP: IRAN EXECUT 2 GAY MEN OVER SODOMY CHARG

"I thk their hate of homosexualy was so huge that they cid to kill him, " she May 4, Monfared ma the fal preparatns for his parture. The activist hop the vios rm people of queer people's liv Iran, where punishments for beg gay range om 100 lash of the whip to, the munitns director for the Center for Human Rights Iran, said homophobia was wispread the untry.

"In the days followg the killg, Okan Sengun of the LGBT Asylum Project said he received many emails om gay Iranians who were heartbroken by Monfared's ath.

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

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

IRAN EXECUT GAY TEENAGER VLATN OF TERNATNAL LAW

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.

Iran has executed two gay men who were nvicted on charg of sodomy and spent six years on ath row, a rights group reported.

Amnty Internatnal last Tuday urged Iran to ee an Iranian LGBTI activist held for the last three months on charg lked to an appearance a BBC documentary on gay rights Iraqi Kurdistan.

THE 6 COUNTRI EXECUTE PEOPLE FOR BEG GAY

After a 53-day perd of “forced disappearance” solary nfement the northwtern Iranian cy of Omiyeh, she was January brought before Iranian prosecutors and charged wh “spreadg rptn on earth” and “promotg homosexualy.

Homosexualy is banned Iran wh s penal explicly crimalizg same-sex sexual behavr for both men and women.

Iranian gay rights group 6Rang (6 Colours) had ially drawn attentn to the disappearance of Sedighi-Hamadani — also known as Sareh — December. 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 IS FORCG THOANDS OF GAY PEOPLE TO HAVE GENR REASSIGNMENT SURGERY AGAST THEIR WILL OR FACE EXECUTN

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

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. Iran’s legal system explicly prohibs homosexualy and same-sex relatns are punishable by ath unr the untry’s penal .

While the judicial cisn and sentencg orr are not public, the experts were rmed that the charg ncerned speech and actns support of the human rights of lbian, gay, bisexual, and trans and other genr-diverse (LGBT) persons who face discrimatn Iran based on their sexual orientatn and genr inty. 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.

IRAN PURPORTEDLY EXECUT 2 GAY MEN OVER SODOMY CHARG

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.

IRANIAN OFFICIAL PROMOTG PIETY DISMISSED AFTER ALLEGED GAY SEX TAPE EMERG

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. “ 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.