Mehrdad Karimpour and Farid Mohammadi were in a prison in Iran for a suspected “forced sex between two men” executed.
Iran executed two men under the Sharia legal system last Sunday. The two Iranian men Mehrdad Karimpou and Farid Mohammadi were killed, according to the organization “Human Rights Network” killed in Iran’s Maragheh prison in the northwest of the country. The men were arrested six years ago, like them “Jerusalem Post” reported.
The Iranian regime often uses the charge of sodomy 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
“Human Rights Network” in Iran 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,” he tweeted “Iran Human Rights Monitor”. “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, said in an interview with the “Jerusalem Post”: “The prisons of the Islamic Republic are full of people who have committed no 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.”
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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 bestiality,” Iranian-American journalist Karmel Melamed tweeted. He added their portraits and asked: “Where’s the outrage from US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, […] and other LGBT groups in the US about this horrible crime?!”
As the “Jerusalem Post” reported, already in 2014 the new President of Iran, Ebrahim Raisi, declared in a statement that same-sex relationships “nothing but cruelty”. Sodomy is actually sexual intercourse between humans and animals, only in a discriminatory way the term is also used to describe sexual acts between homosexual people.
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