carried out the death penalty
Iran: Two gay men are hanged for “sodomy” six years after being imprisoned
Iran is considered one of the most repressive places in the world for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people (Screenshot)
© Twitter channel Karmel Melamed
Mehrdad Karimpour and Farid Mohammadi were executed in a prison in Iran for allegedly “forced sex between two men”.
Iran executed two men under the Sharia legal system last Sunday. The two Iranian men Mehrdad Karimpou and Farid Mohammadi were killed in Iran’s Maragheh prison in the northwest of the country, according to the organization “Human Rights Network”. The men were arrested six years ago, the Jerusalem Post reports.
The Iranian regime often uses sodomy charges to impose the death penalty on gays and lesbians. According to a 2008 British Wikipedia report, Iran has executed between 4,000 and 6,000 gays and lesbians since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Iranian media are silent
Iran’s Human Rights Network said the Iranian regime-controlled media failed to report the execution of the two men under the country’s anti-gay laws. “The two Iranian men were executed today after being found guilty of homosexuality,” Iran Human Rights Monitor tweeted. “Human rights websites identified the men as 32-year-old Mehrdad Karimpour and Farid Mohammadi. They were arrested 6 years ago and were in Maragheh prison until their execution.”
Sheina Vojoudi, an Iranian dissident who fled to Germany because of political persecution, told the Jerusalem Post: “The prisons of the Islamic Republic are full of people who have not committed a crime […]. The Islamic Republic of Iran is based on injustice, to make it clearer let me remind you of Saeed Toosi, the prominent Quran reciter and teacher who is Ali Khamenei’s favorite Quran reciter. He was accused of sexual abuse and rape by 19 of his former Koranic students, who were then underage, but he had the Supreme Leader’s protection and his case was ignored by the authorities.”
One of the most repressive states
Iran is considered one of the most repressive places in the world for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. “The Ayatollah regime in Iran has just executed two gay men for the crime of sodomy,” Iranian-American journalist Karmel Melamed tweeted. Adding their portraits, he asked, “Where is the outrage from US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, […] and other LGBT groups in the US about this horrific crime?!”
As the “Jerusalem Post” reports, the now new President of Iran, Ebrahim Raisi, declared in a statement in 2014 that same-sex relationships are “nothing but cruelty”. Sodomy actually refers to sexual intercourse between humans and animals, only in In a discriminatory way, the term is also used to describe sexual acts between homosexual people.
Sources: “Jerusalem Post”, Twitter