Report: Iraqi gays slated for execution this week [View All]

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This situation is beyond horrific; unlike Jamaica, there's no boycott to affect Iraq's state persecution, arrest, and execution of LGBTs. What will our state department say about this? (UK Gay News):
More than 100 prisoners in Iraq are facing execution - and many of them are believed to have been convicted of the 'crime' of being gay, the UK-based Iraqi-LGBT group revealed this afternoon.
According to Ali Hili of Iraqi-LGBT, the Iraqi authorities plan to start executing them in batches of 20 from this week. There is, said Mr. Hili, at least one member of Iraqi-LGBT who are among those to be put to death.

And the London-based group, which believes that a total of 128 executions are imminent, is calling on the UK Government, international human rights groups and the United Nations Human Rights Commission in Geneva to intervene "with due speed" to prevent "this tragic miscarriage of justice" from going ahead.

...Most are likely to have been sentenced to death by the Central Criminal Court of Iraq (CCCI), whose proceedings consistently fall short of international standards for fair trial, Mr. Hili said.

Visit the IRAQI LGBT web site for more.

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We need to stop sending them so much money if they are going to do this shit.