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jimmie

(318 posts)
Sun May 13, 2012, 04:54 PM May 2012

(Puke) Four Iranian men sentenced to death by hanging for sodomy

http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2012/05/four-iranian-men-sentenced-to-to-death-by-hanging-for-sodomy/

An Iranian court has sentenced four men from the town of Choram, in the Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, to death by hanging for sodomy.

The four men — identified as “Saadat Arefi,” “Vahid Akbari,” “Javid Akbari,” and “Houshmand Akbari” — were due to be executed shortly after their verdict was approved recently by high court judges, according to a report from the Human Rights Activist News Agency (HRANA) in Iran.

According to HRANA and JOOPEA, the men will be hanged for sodomy in accordance with Sharia law.

A gay activist based in Iran said, “Although being gay is not a crime based on Iranian criminal law but this is the most clear statement against same sex-acts in past months.”




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(Puke) Four Iranian men sentenced to death by hanging for sodomy (Original Post) jimmie May 2012 OP
I wish I didn't feel so powerless mitchtv May 2012 #1
Let him without sin /nt dickthegrouch May 2012 #2

dickthegrouch

(3,172 posts)
2. Let him without sin /nt
Sun May 13, 2012, 08:09 PM
May 2012

It's the only occasion I will use the word "sin" - to bash religious perverts with.

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