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(Video) Meeting in secret, living in fear: Members of Iran’s LGBT community tell of [...]
The client of human rights lawyer Mohammad Mostafaei has been sentenced to death in spite of retracted testimony
By Saeed Kamali Dehghan
Source: Guardian
August 8, 2010
An 18-year-old Iranian is facing imminent execution on charges of homosexuality, even though he has no legal representation. Ebrahim Hamidi, who is not gay, was sentenced to death for lavat, [...]
Mohammad Abdollahi’s Case Highlights Complexity of Asylum Petition Process
By Devin Dwyer
Source: ABC News
July 27, 2010
By the time Mohammad Abdollahi figured out he had been living in the United States illegally for more than a decade, he also knew that his personal safety would depend on being able to stay in the country he [...]
By Soheila Mirzaie
Source: Shahrzad News
July 19, 2010
Soheila Mirzaie of Shahrzad News interviews Nima and Sio, two Iranian gays who fled their homeland to avoid persecution. She hears how the opposition forces do not treat them any better.
?Shahrzad News: Nima is a young Iranian gay who discovered the nature of his sexuality at puberty. [...]
Source: Iranian Railroad for Queer Refugees
July 16, 2010
This week, The Iranian Railroad for Queer Refugees (IRQR), received several new reports of arrests of queer Iranians in the city of Shiraz, Iran.
On Sunday July 11th 2010, a private party in a suburb called Podonak was raided. The police lead the raid, accompanied by [...]
Source: IRanian Queer Organization – IRQO
Monday, July 12 2010
Following a dispute between two families on 2008 Ebrahim Hamidi’s execution orders was issued for the third time last week in the city of Tabriz, Azarbijan, Mohamad Mustafaei, lawyer of juveniles sentenced to execution reported in his letter to the public.
Mr. Mustafaei [...]
Source: BBC
July 7, 2010
Lord Hope said that homosexual acts may be punishable by death in Iran
Two gay men who said they faced persecution in their home countries have the right to asylum in the UK, the Supreme Court has ruled.
The panel of judges said it had agreed “unanimously” to allow the [...]
By Kim Kozlowski
Source: The Detroit News
May 20, 2010
Mohammad Abdollahi was putting his life on the line when he lobbied for immigration reform in Arizona this week, experts say.
The undocumented Ann Arbor resident, along with three other students, was arrested Monday and later detained by immigration officials in Arizona when he refused [...]
By Anthony Faiola
Source: The Washington Post
April 2, 2010
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As Hassan walked — well, more like sashayed — through the market in this southern Turkish city, the population on the sidewalk — elderly women in dark veils, men behind stalls selling Turkish pears five to a bag, children in [...]
By Anthony Faiola
Source: The Washington Post Foreign Service
February 15, 2010
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KAYSERI, TURKEY — After an hours-long interrogation, Iranian intelligence agents trailed Aida Saadat to the dimly lit streets of her neighborhood in Tehran, she recalled. Yelling out her name, they came at her with batons, then left her lying on the sidewalk bloodied and bruised.
“They [...]
