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Iran
hangs gay man in public
From
Iranfocus.com
On the
Web, November 14, 2006
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Tehran, Iran, -- A gay Iranian
man was hanged in public on Tuesday in the western city of Kermanshah on the
charge of sodomy.
Shahab Darvishi was charged with organising a “corruption ring”, deliberate
assault, and “lavat”, which means homosexual relationship between two men or
sodomy, the official news agency IRNA reported.
Darvishi was hanged in the evening in Kermanshah’s “Freedom Square” in front of
hundreds of people, the report said.
Under Iran’s Islamic Penal Code, homosexuality between consenting adults is a
capital crime and official Iranian sources express hostility to homosexual
practices. A state radio commentary on March 7, 2005 criticised gay
marriages in Western countries. Ayatollah Ebrahim Amini, an influential
cleric, said in his Friday-prayer sermon in Qom that gay and lesbian marriages
reflect a weakness of Western culture, state television reported on July 13,
2002. Ayatollah Ali Meshkini in his Friday-prayer sermon in Qom criticised
the German Green Party for being pro-homosexual, state television reported on
April 29, 2000.
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