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PostPosted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 10:31 pm    Post subject: Iran Mullah's Majlis deputies endorse execution of minor Reply with quote

Iran Clerical Majlis deputies endorse execution of minor



Blindfolded Mahmoud Asgari, 16, left, and another unidentified teenager are set to be publicly hanged, in Mashhad, Iran, on charges of raping boys in this photo taken on July 19, 2005. Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi Saturday condemned the execution of two under-18 boys in northeastern Iran, a punishment that has also reportedly prompted protests by gay groups around the world.(AP Photo)

Wed. 20 Jul 2005

http://www.iranfocus.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=2916

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Tehran, Iran, Jul. 20 – Members of Iran’s parliament from the north-eastern city of Mashad, where a minor and an 18-year-old man were publicly hanged yesterday, vented their anger on Wednesday on foreign and domestic news outlets for reporting the ages of hanged prisoners.

Ultra-conservative deputy Ali Asgari said that the two deserved to be hanged in public, adding, “Whatever sentence is decreed by an Islamic penal system must be approved, unless proven otherwise”.

Asgari complained of foreign and domestic reporting that the two were mere boys. “Instead of paying tribute to the action of the judiciary, the media are mentioning the age of the hanged criminals and creating a commotion that harms the interests of the state”, the member of the Majlis Legal Affairs Committee said.

“Even if certain websites made a reference to their age, journalists should not pursue this. These individuals were corrupt. Their sentence was carried out with the approval of the judiciary and it served them right.”

Effat Shariati, another Majlis deputy from Mashad, told a state-run news agency on Wednesday, “The issue of the age of the convicts is created by those who are causing problems for our country”.

The two young men were lashed 228 times before being hanged at 10 am (local time) on Tuesday in Edalat (Justice) Square in downtown Mashad.


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PostPosted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 10:36 pm    Post subject: Iran continues to execute minors and juvenile offenders Reply with quote

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL

Public Statement

AI Index: MDE 13/038/2005 (Public)
News Service No: 199
22 July 2005

Iran continues to execute minors and juvenile offenders

http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/document.do?id=80256DD400782B84802570460056CF81

In the wake of the execution of three persons for crimes committed when they were children (under 1Cool, including one who is still a child, in less than a week, Amnesty International today urges the Iranian government to put a final stop to these executions.

On 19 July 2005, an 18-year-old, identified only as A. M. and a minor, Mahmoud A, were publicly hanged in the north-eastern city of Mashhad. According to reports, they were convicted of sexual assault on a 13-year-old boy and had been detained 14 months ago. Prior to their execution, the two were also given 228 lashes each for drinking, disturbing the peace and theft.

Prior to this, on 13 July 2005, Ali Safarpour Rajabi, aged 20, was hanged for killing Hamid Enshadi, a police officer in Poldokhtar. Amnesty International recorded his death sentence as having been passed in February 2002, when he was 17 years old, and believes his crime may have been committed when he was only 16 years old.

As a state party to the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), Iran has undertaken not to execute anyone for an offence committed when they were under the age of 18.

For the past four years, the Iranian authorities have been considering legislation that would prohibit the use of the death penalty for offences committed by persons under the age of 18. Under Article 1210(1) of Iran's Civil Code, the ages of 15 lunar years for boys and nine lunar years for girls are set out as the age of criminal responsibility.

In January 2005, following its consideration of Iran's second periodic report on its implementation of the provisions of the CRC, the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (the Committee), the body of independent experts established under this Convention to monitor states parties' compliance with the treaty, urged Iran:

"to take the necessary steps to immediately suspend the execution of all death penalties imposed on persons for having committed a crime before the age of 18, to take the appropriate legal measures to convert them to penalties in conformity with the provisions of the Convention and to abolish the death penalty as a sentence imposed on persons for having committed crimes before the age of 18, as required by article 37 of the Convention."

And, inter alia:

"to suspend immediately the imposition and execution of all forms of torture, cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, such as amputation, flogging or stoning, for crimes committed by persons under 18." (paragraphs 30 and 72.b of the Committee's Concluding Observations, UN Doc. CRC/C/15/Add.254.)

So far this year, Iran has executed at least four persons for crimes committed when they were children including one who is still a child. Amnesty International has recorded 42 executions so far in 2005, but the true number could well be higher.

It is now imperative for Iran to stop sentencing children to death, to end the executions of children, and to halt all forms of violence against children.
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 10:40 pm    Post subject: Sweden must halt deportations to Iran after hangings: gay ri Reply with quote

Sweden must halt deportations to Iran after hangings: gay rights group

People march in the Stockholm Pride Parade in 2003. A Swedish gay rights group called on the government to immediately halt all deportations of homosexuals to Iran, saying two young men were hanged there this week for committing a 'homosexual act'(AFP/Pressensbild/File)


STOCKHOLM (AFP) - A Swedish gay rights group called on the government to immediately halt all deportations of homosexuals to Iran, saying two young men were hanged there this week for committing a "homosexual act."

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"There are clear examples that homosexuals are killed in Iran for their sexual orientation. I think the Swedish government is extremely cynical when it sends gays and lesbians back to Iran," Soeren Andersson, head of the Swedish Federation for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights (RFSL), told AFP.

The two men, one of whom was under 18 years of age, were hanged on Tuesday, officially for raping a 13-year-old boy at knife-point, but Andersson said it was possible that they had in fact only had sex with each other.

"It is not unusual that one uses such charges as an excuse (to execute homosexuals) in such reactionary states as Iran," he insisted.

Before their hanging in northeastern Iran, both convicts were also reportedly given 228 lashes each for drinking, disturbing the peace and theft.

Sweden's asylum policy makes it illegal for the government to deport any person "who due to her/his sex or homosexuality experiences a well-founded fear of persecution", but authorities have claimed that the death penalty for sodomy is no longer in force, allowing it to send gay asylum seekers back to Iran.

"They keep looking for excuses to send them back there, but it is dangerous for homosexuals in Iran," Andersson said.

Sweden, which is considered one of the world's most liberal countries when it comes to gay rights and gender equality, "has always wanted to be the voice of human rights in the world. The deportations of homosexuals to Iran is a stain on Sweden's reputation", he said.

The Swedish Migration Board told AFP on Friday that it does not keep statistics on the grounds rejected asylum seekers had used in their asylum applications.

"It's difficult to know how many cases there have been," agency spokeswoman Marie Andersson said.

RFSL asylum seeker attorney Stig Aake Petersson however claims that some 10 homosexuals and transsexuals have their asylum applications turned down each year.

"They are sent back or disappear somehow. One transsexual whose case was turned down committed suicide last year. I guess that was preferable to going back," he told AFP.

In 2004 at least 159 people were executed in Iran -- the highest rate in the world after China -- according to Amnesty International.

Iran's capital offences include murder, rape, armed robbery, apostasy, blasphemy, serious drug trafficking, repeated sodomy, adultery or prostitution, treason and espionage.
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 10:45 pm    Post subject: Report: Iran Gay Teens Executed Reply with quote

Report: Iran Gay Teens Executed
by 365Gay.com Newscenter Staff
http://www.365gay.com/newscon05/07/072105iran.htm

Posted: July 21, 2005 11:00 am ET

(London) Two teenagers have been executed after a religious court found them them guilty of homosexuality according to pro-Democracy groups.

The Iranian Students News Agency reports that the executions took place on July 19 in the northeastern city of Mashhad.

One teen, ISNA says was 18, the other was a minor, believed to be 16 or 17. The organization ran a picture of what it said was the execution on its Web site.

The English language Iran In Focus also reported the executions, saying the teens were hanged in public in the city square. It quotes sources as saying the teens were executed for having sex with another minor but this could not be confirmed. The report does not name the victim. Under Sharia law the victim of a sexual assault must also be executed.

Both news services say that prior to their execution, the teenagers were held in prison for 14 months, severely beaten and given the lash 228 times.

A report of the executions was also carried on the website of the respected democratic opposition movement, The National Council of Resistance Of Iran.

Ruhollah Rezazadeh, the lawyer for the younger teen reportedly had appealed the death sentence but the Supreme Court in Tehran ordered him to be hanged.

Under the Iranian penal code, girls as young as nine and boys as young as 15 can be hanged.

Three other young gay Iranians are reportedly being hunted by police, but they are said to have gone into hiding and cannot be found. If caught, they would also face execution.

The British LGBT rights group OutRage has called for sanctions against Iran. The organization has called for western states to break off diplomatic relations, impose trade sanctions and treat Iran as "a pariah state".

"This is just the latest barbarity by the Islamo-fascists in Iran,” said OutRage spokesperson Peter Tatchell.

"The entire country is a gigantic prison, with Islamic rule sustained by detention without trial, torture and state-sanctioned murder.

"According to Iranian human rights campaigners, over 4,000 lesbians and gay men have been executed since the Ayatollahs seized power in 1979," said Tatchell.

Iran In Focus reports that members of Iran’s parliament are applauding the court for carrying out the death sentence on the teens.

"These individuals were corrupt. Their sentence was carried out with the approval of the judiciary and it served them right,” the publication quotes Ali Asgari, a member of the Majlis Party Legal Affairs Committee.

At least three men have been sentenced over the past month to death by stoning in Nigeria which also follows Sharia law in several provinces. (story)

In March a gay couple was beheaded in a public execution in Saudi Arabia. (story) The pair had been convicted of killing a blackmailer who had threatened to expose them to authorities. Hundreds of other gays have been rounded up by Saudi authorities in recent months. (story)

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PostPosted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 12:08 am    Post subject: Global anger grows over teen executions in Iran Reply with quote

Global anger grows over teen executions in Iran

Gay.com U.K. and the PlanetOut Network
Mon Jul 25, 8:44 PM ET

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/po/20050726/co_po/globalangergrowsoverteenexecutionsiniran

SUMMARY: International human rights organizations are calling for action to be taken against Iran after officials publicly executed two gay teenagers last week.

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International human rights organizations are calling for action to be taken against Iran after officials publicly executed two gay teenagers last week.


The two boys, who were identified only by their initials, were executed for having sex with each other. Homosexuality is illegal under the Sharia law, which allows execution of children as young as 9 years of age.


The teens were also charged with raping a 13-year-old boy, although the majority of news services say this charge has been trumped up by the Iranian state in a bid to avoid international criticism.


Activists believe the boys gave their "confession" after weeks of torture. They were detained and subjected to beatings by local police for up to two weeks before their death.


Now, international groups are calling for stronger action to be taken against Iran. In Tehran Saturday, children's rights activist Shirin Ebadi said that the hangings violated the terms of the International Convention on the Rights of the Child.


Ebadi, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003, told the Associated Press that her campaign to outlaw the execution of minors had "fallen on deaf ears," but vowed that her Center for the Protection of Human Rights would step up the fight.


In the United States, the Human Rights Campaign is calling for Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice to denounce the executions.


"As we have seen in recent weeks, the barbarous punishments for sexual acts in these countries run contrary to the letter and the spirit of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights," the HRC stated in a letter to Rice.


"For that reason, these acts must be condemned."


In the United Kingdom, Peter Tatchell of the London-based LGBT rights group OutRage! criticized the Labour party for trying to forge closer ties with the government of Iran.


"Britain's Labour government is pursuing friendly relations with this murderous regime, including aid and trade," Tatchell said.


"We urge the international community to treat Iran as a pariah state, break off diplomatic relations, impose trade sanctions and give practical support to the democratic and left opposition inside Iran."


Tatchell also said the country had become a "prison," with the ultraconservative state blocking any movement toward a more liberal, democratic society.


Elsewhere, activists are calling for their governments to publicly criticize the Iranian-sanctioned executions.


In Sweden, the Swedish Federation for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights (RFSL) has called on the government to update its asylum policy so that lesbian and gay people are not deported back to Iran.


"I think the Swedish government is extremely cynical when it sends gays and lesbians back to Iran," Soren Andersson told the AFP news agency.


"They keep looking for excuses to send them back there, but it is dangerous for homosexuals in Iran," he added.

However, Iran is standing firm on its decision to kill the two young men. Last week, ultraconservative deputy Ali Asgari stated that the punishment "served them right."


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Lets see if the European anger will hold up when it comes to their greed!
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