Monday, August 15, 2005

ILGA: Iran to Execute Two Homosexuals

From: Roberto Rodriguez

Two pieces of information that arrived yesterday from one of our contacts
in Iran. He has requested that his name is not disclosed.

Best regards,
Roberto Rodriguez
Manager

ILGA

International Lesbian and Gay Association
Avenue des Villas, 34 1060 Brussels
+32 (0)2 502 24 71


More about the two sentensed gays in Arak:

The two boys one of them known as Farbod ( seems that his real name is
Amir) and Ahmad both 27 years old. They are friends and have a music shop
together but financially not in a good position.

The Tird man : his name is Ali, 22 years Old, attractive and weldressed.
His father is a SARHANG in the army ( Sarhang=high military title). Ali is
a student in Arak university, has been having conflict with his family:
his parents havn't been happy about the cloth he wear and the way he fix
his hear and recently has been thinking of moving out of family and find
own place to live. It seems that Ali has been know to be bisexual and our
source in Arak ( a gay man) knows him but not very well.

The cliams that Farbod (Amir) and Ahmad had abducted Ali and raped him
seems to be true. The two sentebnsed have had a good lawyer but beacause
they don't had enough money, he has not done his best( We are not sure
about such claim). It seems that Ali had mentioned what had happened to
him, first to his father and some days later Ali had been taken to doctor
to check if his cliam is correct)

The two men have been sentensed by a court in Arak .

We are trying to find a way to contact the lawyer.

Even today another man has been executed in Arak for homosexuality and
killing another man ( We and our sources are not sure that the claim about
killing or... are correct as the islamic republic and its court always add
to gays so called crime).

There is another theory: Islamic republic want to show that international
presure is not going to help and they are going to start killing
homosexuals as they did in 1979 when they took the power in the country.

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Two gay men in ARAK ( a city outside Tehran) are going to be executed in
12 days time.

After the news about plan for execution of 2 gaymen in Arak, we have been
in contact with a number of people to get the correct information.

The first info we have received is:

That the both of the sentenced men who are in jail now, have been
attracted to a third man. This man has not been interested of any of them
( not clear if he is not gay or he is gay but simply not interested). and
the two men decide to abduct him and have sex with him.

It seems that the man has gone to the police and reported it.

It is clear now that the two men will be executed in 5:th Shahrivar ( next
month in Iranian Calender but 5:th Shahrivar is 12 days from today)

Please note: this is the first info we have got and our source is: two gay
friends ( one living in Arak and the other is his friend from Tehran).

We have asked a lot of qoestions and asked these two freinds to find more
info. We will be in touch when we get more info.

----- End of forwarded message from Roberto Rodriguez -----

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