New Events

International

no events posted in last week

Blog Feeds

Public Inquiry
Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

offsite link RTEs Sarah McInerney ? Fianna Fail?supporter? Anthony

offsite link Joe Duffy is dishonest and untrustworthy Anthony

offsite link Robert Watt complaint: Time for decision by SIPO Anthony

offsite link RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony

offsite link Waiting for SIPO Anthony

Public Inquiry >>

Human Rights in Ireland
Promoting Human Rights in Ireland

Human Rights in Ireland >>

Lockdown Skeptics

The Daily Sceptic

offsite link The Rise of the Name Muhammad Across Europe Sat Aug 23, 2025 13:21 | Richard Eldred
Across Europe, baby boys named Muhammad and its variants have shot up by as much as 700% since 2000, thanks to growing Muslim communities and mass immigration.
The post The Rise of the Name Muhammad Across Europe appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link British Paralympians Turn Backs During Israeli National Anthem Sat Aug 23, 2025 11:00 | Richard Eldred
Sanctions are being demanded after Britain's wheelchair basketball team turned their backs on Israel's anthem in a gesture slammed as "deeply disrespectful" and an attack on sporting dignity.
The post British Paralympians Turn Backs During Israeli National Anthem appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Reform UK Will Pledge Five Deportation Flights a Day Sat Aug 23, 2025 09:00 | Richard Eldred
Nigel Farage has unveiled his full plan to mass deport asylum seekers arriving on small boats, including housing them at RAF bases, scrapping the ECHR and sending them to third countries.
The post Reform UK Will Pledge Five Deportation Flights a Day appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Britain?s Quixotic Carbon Capture Crusade Sat Aug 23, 2025 07:00 | Tilak Doshi
Ed Miliband's throwing billions at carbon capture, but as the Daily Sceptic's Energy Editor points out, it's a quixotic crusade for tech that's flopped everywhere else.
The post Britain?s Quixotic Carbon Capture Crusade appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Sat Aug 23, 2025 00:38 | Richard Eldred
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
The post News Round-Up appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

Lockdown Skeptics >>

Voltaire Network
Voltaire, international edition

offsite link Will intergovernmental institutions withstand the end of the "American Empire"?,... Sat Apr 05, 2025 07:15 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?127 Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:38 | en

offsite link Disintegration of Western democracy begins in France Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:00 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?126 Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:39 | en

offsite link The International Conference on Combating Anti-Semitism by Amichai Chikli and Na... Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:31 | en

Voltaire Network >>

Iran executes three men on homosexuality charges

category international | gender and sexuality | other press author Friday September 16, 2011 14:34author by John Cornford Report this post to the editors

Convicts were sentenced to death 'for acts against the Sharia law and bad deeds'

Iran hangs men for having gay sex. Confirmed by the Iranian news agency ISNA Iran. Full story at

Three Iranian men have been executed after being found guilty of charges related to homosexuality, according to a semi-official news agency.

The men, only identified by their initials, were hanged on Sunday in the south-western city of Ahvaz, the capital of Iran's Khuzestan province.

"The three convicts were sentenced to death based on the articles 108 and 110 of Iran's Islamic penal code, for acts against the sharia law and bad deeds," the Isna agency quoted a judiciary official in Khuzestan as saying.

Iran Human Rights, an independent NGO based in Norway, said the men were charged with "lavat" – sexual intercourse between two men. It is not clear whether the three men were homosexuals or merely smeared with homosexualityaccused of being gay.

Mohammad Mostafaei, a prominent Iranian lawyer who has represented people accused of homosexuality and now lives in exile in Norway, said in an email: "It is not clear whether these three men had any lawyers or were tried without legal representation. Who are their lawyers? I believe they are innocent.

"We should not forget what [president] Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in a speech during his visit to New York for the UN general assembly when he said we don't have homosexuals in Iran and no one will be punished for homosexuality in the country. Many innocent people have indeed been sentenced to death or hanged in secret based on such ambiguous accusations in Iran [in recent years]."

Related Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/07/iran-executes-men-homosexuality-charges
© 2001-2025 Independent Media Centre Ireland. Unless otherwise stated by the author, all content is free for non-commercial reuse, reprint, and rebroadcast, on the net and elsewhere. Opinions are those of the contributors and are not necessarily endorsed by Independent Media Centre Ireland. Disclaimer | Privacy