Iran is considered one of the most repressive countries in the world with the LGTBIQ + community
Iran has executed in the last hours two gay men who were convicted on charges of sodomy as reported by the Human Rights Activists News Agency or NRH. Homosexuality is illegal in Iran, which is considered one of the most repressive countries in the world for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.
Both were sentenced to death for "forced sexual intercourse between two men" and hanged at a prison in the northwestern city of Maragheh, about 500 kilometers from Tehran. According to a report published Sunday by the NRH, were identified as mehrdad karimpour y Farid Mohammed.
In July, two other men were executed on the same charges in Maragheh, since last year, Iran has executed 299 people, including four for crimes committed when they were minors. Under the iranian law, sodomy, rape, adultery, armed robbery and murder are crimes that carry the death penalty.
In some countries being gay costs life
And they exist countries where to be gay life costs. In Iran, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Nigeria, Sudan and Somalia You can die for having homosexual relationships because the law allows it.
En Japan, if a citizen wants to change their sex, they must first be sterilized. fall in love with someone of the same sex Nigeria It is prohibited by the penal code. The penalty for sodomy in Tanzania is 30 years in prison. Mauritania It also contemplates the death penalty for homosexuals, although it has not been applied for years. When a few years ago some newspapers in Uganda they showed on their front page the “100 Gayest Ugandans”, some of the people whose names were published were lynched shortly afterwards.
Own Ebrahim raisi, President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, declared in 2014 (when he headed the judiciary of Iran) that same-sex relationships are not “nothing but savagery”. According to Javaid Rehman, an independent United Nations human rights investigator, in Iran «continue to apply capital punishment at an alarming rate«.
