2005-07-30
persecution of gay people
Iran executes two kids for having sex | First reported in Farsi by the Iranian Students' News Agency (ISNA) the story got picked up by Britain's longest surviving queer rights direct action group OutRage! |
Contact the Iranian Embassy in London to protest this barbaric practice | Let Amnesty International know your thoughts as well |
One youth was aged 18 and the other was aminor under the age of 18. They were only identified by their initials, M.A. and A.M.
They admitted to having gay sex (probably under torture) but claimed in their defence that most young boys had sex with each other and that they were not aware that homosexuality was punishable by death.
Iran enforces Islamic Sharia law, which dictates the death penalty for gay sex. Prior to their execution, the teenagers were held in prison for 14 months and severely beaten with 228 lashes.Their length of detention suggests that they committed the so-called offences more than a year earlier, when they were possibly around the age of 16. Under the Iranian penal code, girls as young as nine and boys as young as 15 can be hanged.
Three other young gay Iranians are being hunted by the police, but they have gone into hiding and cannot be found. If caught, they will also face execution. | Read the whole story |
Contact the Iranian Embassy in London to protest this barbaric practice | Let Amnesty International know your thoughts as well |
OTHER PERSPECTIVES: Persian Journal reports this as Barbarity by Islamo-fascists | PIX CREDITS: Iranian Students' News Agency (ISNA) | Are these the first of many of Iran's lynch mob history pictures of the future? |
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