Iranian lesbian Kiana Firouz facing 100 lashes (and possible execution) over film

[Ed Barrow]

A young Iranian actress named Kiana Firouz will attend the London premiere tonight of a film in which she plays a lesbian seeking asylum in Britain because the Iranian authorities are pursuing her. The Home Office rejects her application and sends her back to the Islamic republic, where homosexuality is a crime punishable by death.

Unfortunately for Kiana Firouz the film is not make-believe. It is based on her life. The Home Office has denied her asylum and she now faces the prospect of deportation to Iran followed by flogging, execution or both.

"Definitely she will be killed," says Ramin Goudarzi Nejad, the London-based director of Cul-de-Sac.

"She would be arrested ... She would be tortured. She could face execution not for being a lesbian but for embarrassing the regime," said Paul Canning, editor of the website LGBT Asylum News.

"She will be in incredible danger, not only because she's clearly gay but because the film does not show the Iranian authorities in a good light. They will probably seek to make an example of her," said one of her legal representatives.



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[tblue]

1. No no no no no no no!!!

Give her asylum. Have to. Have to.

[el_bryanto]

2. Interesting - I hope she doesn't end up getting sent back

Bryant

[TK421]

3. I want to torture the people who want to flog her n/t

[ProgressiveProfessor]

4. We must respect the sharia and islam. We certainly should not impose our values on other cultures

Pardon me while I puke!!!

[fujiyama]

5. But we must respect them

and all cower before them. And even abide by their beliefs, while we throw away our own. Draw Mohammad and get your throat slit. Your gay? You get lashed. You're a woman? Fuck you. Put on a mask and don't drive a car.

Sickening. Fuck these people.

[Kurska]

7. But it is the west's fault!

Our imperialism caused all of this, the middle east was a paradise of tolerance and togetherness of all races and creeds before we went in and bombed it. Besides the west has done so many worse things who cares if they execute a gay or two?

Jeez it is like you didn't read the memo.

[FreeState]

6. K&R

If they try and send her back I hope there is a country that will take her.