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Being gay in Iran

Being gay in Iran

WongMixxMySpaceNetvouzNewsvineoneviewOnlyWirePlugIMPropellerRedditSegnaloShoutwireSimpySlashdotSurphaceSphinnSpurlS LiveYahoo!Email This to a Friend  Link HTML:  Permalink:  If you like this then please subscribe to the RSS Feed or Email Feed.Powered by Bookmarkify™ More » (Video) Meeting in secret, living in fear: Members of Iran’s LGBT community tell of arrests, beatings, rape – and escape [...]

Iran set to execute 18-year-old on false charge of sodomy

Iran set to execute 18-year-old on false charge of sodomy

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 [...]

Gay Illegal Immigrant Seeks Asylum with Deportation to Iran Pending

Gay Illegal Immigrant Seeks Asylum with Deportation to Iran Pending

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 [...]

Iranian gays – persecuted by the state and ignored by the opposition

Iranian gays – persecuted by the state and ignored by the opposition

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 [...]

17 people arrested in Shiraz for homosexuality

17 people arrested in Shiraz for homosexuality

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 [...]

Iranian Queer Organization Request Annulling of Execution Order for Ebrahim Hamidi

Iranian Queer Organization Request Annulling of Execution Order for Ebrahim Hamidi

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 published a [...]

Gay asylum seekers from Iran and Cameroon win appeal

Gay asylum seekers from Iran and Cameroon win appeal

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 [...]

Ann Arbor gay man at risk if deported to home country Iran

Ann Arbor gay man at risk if deported to home country Iran

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 [...]

Gay Iranians increasingly fleeing their country after June’s crackdown

Gay Iranians increasingly fleeing their country after June’s crackdown

By Anthony Faiola Source: The Washington Post April 2, 2010 Click here to see photo gallery 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 [...]

Dissident Iranians find refuge in Turkey

Dissident Iranians find refuge in Turkey

By Anthony Faiola Source: The Washington Post Foreign Service February 15, 2010 Photo gallery 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 [...]

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