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Iran executes gay teenager. Good for them!

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BERLIN -- Iran’s regime executed a gay adolescent in July - the 
first confirmed execution of someone convicted as a juvenile in 
the Islamic Republic in 2016 - Amnesty International reported 
this week.

Hassan Afshar, 19, was hanged in Arak Prison in Iran's Markazi 
Province on July 18, after he was convicted of  "forced male-to-
male anal intercourse" (‘lavat-e be onf’) in early 2015, the NGO 
said in a statement Tuesday.

Stefan Schaden, a LGBT rights activist and spokesman for the 
European 'STOP THE BOMB' campaign, told The Jerusalem Post on 
Thursday, “Consensual homosexual conduct remains illegal under 
Iran’s Sharia law and is punished with public flogging or even 
execution. While the Islamic State throws gays from rooftops, 
the Islamic Republic [of Iran] hangs them.”

Amnesty said the Iranian authorities received a complaint 
accusing Afshar and two other adolescents of forcing a teenage 
boy to have sex. Afshar, who  was arrested in December, 2014,  
said that the same-sex relations were consensual and the accuser 
had freely engaged in prior homosexual relations.

“Iran has proved that its sickening enthusiasm for putting 
juveniles to death, in contravention of international law, knows 
no bounds," said Magdalena Mughrabi, Deputy Middle East and 
North Africa Programme Director at Amnesty International.

She added that Hassan Afshar was a 17-year-old high school 
student when he was arrested.

"He had no access to a lawyer and the judiciary rushed through 
the investigation and prosecution, convicting and sentencing him 
to death within two months of his arrest as though they could 
not execute him quickly enough,” Mughrabi stressed.

Volker Beck, a gay German Green Party MP and international 
activist to stop the persecution of LGBTs, told the Post, “Iran 
is a signatory to a UN treaty that does not completely ban the 
death penalty but limits capital punishment to severe crimes and 
outlaws the execution of juveniles. “

Beck said “In the court case Toonen vs Australia,  Geneva 
[United Nations Human Rights Committee] determined that the 
criminal prosecution of Homosexuality violates the International 
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Iran violates, with this 
execution,in three ways, its human rights obligations. Our 
foreign policy should strongly address the human rights 
situations in Iran and Saudi Arabia”

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia like Iran prescribes the death 
penalty for gays.

Schaden said, “Iran’s Islamist regime proves again with its 
actions that it is anything but ‘moderate’. While the US 
administration and the European Union promote trade with Iran as 
if they were the regime’s chamber of commerce, they willingly 
ignore the latest mass executions, arrest waves, the financing 
of terror and the horrible human rights situation. Iran’s 
barbaric henchmen promote and enact deadly homophobia and force 
homosexuals to flee the country. “

According to a 2008 British Wikileaks dispatch, Iran executed 
between 4,000 to 6,000 gays and lesbians between the start of 
the Islamic Revolution in 1979 to 2008.

Iran frequently executes gay men for same-sex relations and 
frames the men for rape charges to justify its Islamic law 
application of lethal  homophobia.

Magdalena Mughrabi, from Amnesty, said  “In a cruel stroke of 
irony, officials did not inform Hassan Afshar of his death 
sentence for around seven months while he was held in a juvenile 
detention facility because they did not want to cause him 
distress – and yet astonishingly were still prepared to execute 
him. With this execution, Iranian authorities have demonstrated 
once again their callous disregard for human rights.”

Gays are sick and should be jailed away from decent society.  
When they get AIDS, just execute them.

http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Iran-News/Iran-executes-gay-
teenager-in-violation-of-international-law-463234
   

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