Three More Homosexuals Publicly Hanged in Iran
Friends in OutRage! UK have informed me that new reports out of Iran indicate three more possible homosexual men were publicly hanged this week.
How many such cases must we read about before U.S. gay groups, especially those with the words "human rights" in their names, deplore the killings in Iran and elsewhere, and take concrete action to stop the executions?
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Iran Focus
Tehran, Iran, Nov. 21 – Three men were hanged to death in the city of Kermanshah, western Iran, a state-run daily reported on Monday.
The men, identified only by their first names, Youness, Hossein, and Ruhollah, were hanged at dawn in Diesel-Abad Prison on Friday, according to the daily Iran Newspaper.
The men were accused of kidnapping and raping a 19-year-old man.
Reports, proud muckraking, photos, videos and musings from the veteran LGBT and AIDS human rights advocate Michael Petrelis. Based in San Francisco since 1995. Contact: MPetrelis_at_AOL_dot_com. Vote Petrelis for BART Board District 9 in November!
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