UPDATE: Upcoming Iran Hangings CONFIRMED

[PageOneQ]

Full Story: http://www.pageoneq.com/news/2005/Iran_Execute_Gay_0817.html

by Doug Ireland

The latest dismal news about the Islamic Republic of Iran’s campaign of repression Irangay_teens_7 against homosexuality comes from the city of Arak, where two homosexual men are scheduled to be executed at the end of the month, probably on August 27( although some sources claim the executions are set for the following day.)

Arak -- some 150 miles southwest of Tehran -- is a city under the strictest possible conservative religious, political, and military rule because it is the site of Iran’s heavy water plant -- heavy water is used in the Iran_nukes production of fissionable nuclear material and is crucial to Iran’s attempts to develop a deliverable nuclear weapon.

The two condemned men, both 27 -- whose names may be transliterated as Farad Mostar and Ahmed Choka -- were sentenced by an Arak court for sexual assault with homosexual acts, or, in other words, rape. Mostar and Choka, who are said to be intimate friends and business partners in a music store, were accused of having sequestered and sexually violated a 22 year old man.

Full Story: http://www.pageoneq.com/news/2005/Iran_Execute_Gay_0817.html

[CAG]

1. Its part of their ploy to placate the christian right...

Focus on the Family and Tony Perkins group might want to sponsor the event...
Just speculating....

[DemoTex]

2. Exactly! Made-up queer news only.

Give me a break. This is weak crap. Next?

[dweller]

3. what??? Gays have a nuke?

:eyes:

dp

[daleo]

4. Nice how they worked in the nuclear bit there.

Even if it was rape, they shouldn't be executed. And if it was consensual sex then it shouldn't be against the law. The article does seem to support the idea that the sex wasn't consensual, for the record:

"An Iranian scholar who has spent considerable time studying sexuality in Iran told me, “In Iranian society, where even dating between men and women is not allowed under the Islamic Republic, rape is a daily occurrence, so great is the level of male sexual frustration. It is quite likely that the two men from Arak under death sentence did not even consider whatever they did to the third man ‘rape.’” Multiple sources, including this scholar and other Iranians, both in exile and in Iran, say that prosecution of men for raping women is relatively rare compared to the number of actual rapes of women which take place."

This could apply to a lot of sexually repressive societies (including parts of the west), other than the death penalty aspect.