The Islamic Republic of Iran imposed the death penalty on two LGBTQ+ activists for the first time in the country’s history.
Two lesbian activists have been sentenced to death in Iran. The 24 and 31-year-old women were found guilty of “corruption on earth,” the Iranian judiciary said in a statement published on the Internet. This is the most serious charge in the Islamic Republic’s legal system, and is usually brought against violations of Sharia law.
The two women are currently being held in a women’s prison. According to activists, they are accused of “promoting” homosexuality. Homosexuality is forbidden in Iran. The Iranian Criminal Code expressly criminalizes same-sex sexual activity for both men and women. As the “Spiegel” reports, citing the state news agency IRNA, the two convicts, Zahra Sedighi and Elham Chobdar, are said to have exploited young women, according to the indictment.
Iran bans all sex between same-sex couples
“It is the first time that a woman has been sentenced to death in Iran because of her sexual orientation,” said Shadi Amin of the LGBTQ organization “6Rang” to the AFP news agency. The abbreviation LGBTQ+ summarizes all types of sexuality that deviate from so-called heteronormativity. Where L stands for Lesbian, G for Gay, B for Bisexual, T for Transgender and Q+ for Queer.
Iran’s 2013 Islamic Penal Code contains a plethora of provisions criminalizing consensual same-sex sexual relations, Amnesty International summarizes on its website.
Such “acts” would be accompanied by corporal punishment, such as B. caning and also the death penalty. Sexual acts between two women are accused mosahegheh criminalizes what Article 238 of Iran’s Penal Code defines as “placing one’s sexual organ on top of another woman’s.”
Sources: AFP,
Source: Stern
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