Homosexuals Rounded Up In Esfahan, Iran-- Police Are Examining Them For Evidence They Are Gay
Iranian law provides punishments up to death for homosexuality.
"Homosexuals deserve to be executed or tortured and possibly both," an Iranian official Mohsen Yahyavi, told British MP's in 2007.
Mahmoud Asgari and Ayaz Marhoni were two gay teens hanged by the regime in 2005.
Police in Esfahan, Iran arrested 30 men at a private party and have been holding the men in jail for four weeks without access to a lawyer.
The police examiner is looking for evidence that the men are homosexual.
Iran Press News reported:
The arrest of more than 30 men attending a party in a private home in the city of Esfahan signals renewed efforts by Iranian authorities to enforce "morality" codes, and highlights the fragility of basic rights in a country where police powers routinely undermine privacy, Human Rights Watch said today.
It urged Iranian authorities to release the men reportedly arrested in late February, and to drop charges against people accused of consensual homosexual conduct, drinking alcohol, and other related "morals" offenses.
"When police routinely break down doors to enforce a brand of morality, it means a line has been crossed to invade people's privacy at any time," said Joe Stork, Middle East director at Human Rights Watch. "Iran's repressive system of controlling peopleْs dress, behavior, and personal lives violates fundamental rights."
Sources inside Iran report to Human Rights Watch that on February 28-29, police in Esfahan raided a private home and arrested 30 or more men attending a party. They have been jailed for almost four weeks without access to lawyers and without charge. Police reportedly referred them to a forensic medical examiner to look for "evidence" that they have engaged in homosexual conduct.
...Iranian law provides punishments up to death for penetrative same-sex sexual activity between men on the first conviction, and punishes non-penetrative activity with up to 100 lashes. Homosexual conduct between women is punishable with death on the fourth conviction.
posted by Gateway Pundit at 3/28/2008 08:07:00 PM
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WHY is the SILENCE so DEAFENING?!
these people are living what Iraqis lived under SADDAM INSANE..
where is the INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITIES OUTRAGE?? do they
have to wait 3 more decades before another Bush comes along??
PROGESSIVE DEMOCRATS FOR HUMANITY, MY ARSE.. WE'D
STILL HAVE SLAVERY IF NOT FOR THE REPUBLICANS, GAH!!
AND THERE ARE STILL GENOCIDES & OTHER ATROCITIES BEING COMMITTED IN THE NAME OF ALLAH IN THE SUDAN ET AL!! WHERE ARE THE PEACE LOVING MUSLIMS WITH THEIR TO KILL ONE HUMAN IS TO KILL ALL OF MANKIND MANTRA DAMNIT!!
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Easy, bg, I could hear you in the other room.
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BEAR @ 10:49 PM.. :D
well i very rarely lose my cool.. but when i do this usually helps to calm me down..
need something stronger i guess, like the U(seless) N(innies) getting a less costly renovation, like a one way trip to the Sahara..
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Hey, bg, that tune has always been a big hit.:D
Happy Saturday to you.
What is an appropriate penalty for being a religious policeman?
What is an appropriate penalty for being a religious policeman?
Sorry about the double-posting.
An adult in Iran can have sex with a goat or a sheep or a child and that is is A-OK, but sex between two consenting adults warrants death. I'm just not getting their wacked logic, of which there is none.
Or a camel. Though it beats me how!
Maybe the same restriction should be applied: you can't eat or sell for food meat from what you diddled.
"Maybe the same restriction should be applied: you can't eat or sell for food meat from what you diddled."
I'm pretty sure I've read some rules on that very thing....they've got it covered, that and women, of course.
Yet, the Left will tell you to fear conservative Christians.
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