Thursday, November 16, 2006

Iran Continues to Hang Gay Men

AN Iranian man convicted of sodomy was publicly hanged in the western town of Kermanshah, the official news agency IRNA reported.

The man, identified as Shahab Darvishi, was charged for “moral corruption, battering and sodomy”.

The public hanging drew hundreds of cheering people.

The execution brings to at least 117 the number of people executed in Iran this year.

Amnesty International has said there were 94 executions in Iran in 2005.

Capital offences in the Islamic republic include murder, rape, armed robbery, apostasy, blasphemy, serious drug trafficking, repeated sodomy, adultery or prostitution, treason and espionage.

(Above:Mahmoud Asgari, 16, and Ayaz Marhoni, 18, were publicly hanged on 19 July 2005 - charges of homosexuality)
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4 comments:

Lavi Soloway said...

where does the top pic come from?

Anonymous said...

Makes you sick that in this day and age ppl are killed for doing something that is perfectly normal and then certain religions take their beliefs from fictional books (i.e. Bibles,Korans etc)and then enforce their religion and way of life on other people. Religion will end up destroying soceity as it always has and always will.

~N~ said...

Top pis is from a Hanging in Iran but I could not confirm if it was Shahab Darvishi.
The second pic is the two young men who were murdered last year

Anonymous said...

cant bliv this shit.
fuck the people in iran.
fuck you all!!!!!
killing people for religion..
fuck you..
id kill you!!!!!!!!!!

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!