Iran executes three men for sodomy

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/iran-executes-three-men-for-sodomy-2350671.html

Iran’s judiciary have executed three men for sodomy in a case that sheds new light on the official persecution of gay men and women in the authoritarian Islamic Republic.

According to a news report carried by the Iranian Student News Agency, the men were put to death by hanging on Sunday morning at Karoun prison in the south western city of Ahvaz. The agency quoted Abdolhamid Amanat, an official at the prosecutor office in Khuzestan Province, as the source of the announcement.

In total six people were executed. According to the published charges, two men were put to death for robbery and rape and one was executed for drug trafficking.

But in an unusual announcement the prosecutor office also admitted that three other men were sentenced for “lavat”, the phrase used in Islamic law for sodomy. The names of the three men have not been given – only their initials M.T, T.T and M.Ch.

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1. Iran is such an asshole of a hellhole place IMO. n/t

[duhneece]

2. The shame these men must have felt is so sad nt

[William769]

3. Hey Iran

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[Zorra]

4. RW fundies, of any stripe, are by far the most dangerous organized groups

of individuals on the planet.

This is legalized murder of innocent people, just like the widespread burning of witches, the murder of so many Jews around WWII, etc.

Murdering innocent people: It's what RW fundies do. Murdering innocent people is the holy grail of their hate dogma.

[I Have A Dream]

5. "Murdering innocent people."

That says it all.

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