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Gays should be hanged, says Iranian minister
Dominic Kennedy (The Times, November 13, 2007)
Homosexuals deserve to be executed or tortured and possibly both, an Iranian leader told British MPs during a private meeting at a peace conference, The Times has learnt.
Mohsen Yahyavi is the highest-ranked politician to admit that Iran believes in the death penalty for homosexuality after a spate of reports that gay youths were being hanged.
President Ahmadinejad, questioned by students in New York two months ago about the executions, dodged the issue by suggesting that there were no gays in his country.
Britain regularly challenges Iran about its gay hangings, stonings and executions of adulterers and perceived moral criminals, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) papers show.
The latest row involves a woman hanged this June in the town of Gorgan after becoming pregnant by her brother. He was absolved after expressing his remorse. Britain said that this demonstrated the unequal treatment of men and women in law and breached Iran’s pledge to restrict the death penalty to the most serious crimes.
A series of reported executions of gays, including two underage boys whose public hanging was posted on the internet, has alarmed human rights campaigners.
The Pet Shop Boys dedicated Fundamental, their Grammy-nominated album, to Mahmoud Asqari and Ayad Marhouni, who were hanged in Justice Square in Mashhad in 2005. Graphic photographs of the execution of the youths, who were under 18 when arrested, were released by the Iranian Students News Agency.
Gay rights groups in Britain, such as Outrage!, accuse Iran of cloaking executions for homosexuality with bogus charges for more serious crimes.
Under the Freedom of Information Act, the FCO released papers to The Times about the death penalty being used in Iran for homosexuality, adultery and sex outside marriage.
Minutes taken by an official describe a meeting between British and Iranian MPs at the Inter-Parliamentary Union, a peace body, in May. When the Britons raised the hangings of Asqari and Marhouni, the leader of the Iranian delegation, Mr Yahyavi, a member of his parliament’s energy committee, was unflinching. He “explained that according to Islam gays and lesbianism were not permitted”, the record states. “He said that if homosexual activity is in private there is no problem, but those in overt activity should be executed [he initially said tortured but changed it to executed]. He argued that homosexuality is against human nature and that humans are here to reproduce. Homosexuals do not reproduce.”
Nicole Pichet, a researcher who also took notes of the gathering, told The Times that the discussion began with British MPs discussing the underage gay hangings. Mr Yahyavi responded by saying homosexuality was to blame for a lot of diseases such as Aids.
Ann Clwyd, the Labour MP and head of Britain’s delegation, said yesterday: “It is of great concern that these attitudes persist and we made it clear what we felt.”
Iran, Mauritania, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, the United Arab Emirates, Yemen and Nigeria apply the death penalty for homosexuality, according to the International Lesbian and Gay Association.
Sharia’s victims
2005
— Homosexuals Farbod Mostaar and Ahmad Chooka sentenced to death. Iran said Chooka had kidnapped, knifed and raped a student
— A woman called Soghra was sentenced to stoning for adultery and being an accomplice to her husband’s murder
— Two men executed in public after being found guilty of a homosexual relationship. A newspaper said they were convicted of sodomy, rape and kidnapping
— Zhila Izadi, 13, sentenced to stoning after becoming pregnant with her brother’s child
2006
— Malek Ghorbany sentenced to stoning for adultery
— Leila Qomi sentenced to stoning for adultery and assisting a man who killed her husband. He received 100 lashes
2007
— Jafar Kiana stoned for adultery. His female lover Mokarrameh Ebrahimi sentenced to the same fate
Source: Foreign and Commonwealth Office documents released under Freedom of Information Act
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Dominic Kennedy (The Times, November 13, 2007)
Homosexuals deserve to be executed or tortured and possibly both, an Iranian leader told British MPs during a private meeting at a peace conference, The Times has learnt.
Mohsen Yahyavi is the highest-ranked politician to admit that Iran believes in the death penalty for homosexuality after a spate of reports that gay youths were being hanged.
President Ahmadinejad, questioned by students in New York two months ago about the executions, dodged the issue by suggesting that there were no gays in his country.
Britain regularly challenges Iran about its gay hangings, stonings and executions of adulterers and perceived moral criminals, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) papers show.
The latest row involves a woman hanged this June in the town of Gorgan after becoming pregnant by her brother. He was absolved after expressing his remorse. Britain said that this demonstrated the unequal treatment of men and women in law and breached Iran’s pledge to restrict the death penalty to the most serious crimes.
A series of reported executions of gays, including two underage boys whose public hanging was posted on the internet, has alarmed human rights campaigners.
The Pet Shop Boys dedicated Fundamental, their Grammy-nominated album, to Mahmoud Asqari and Ayad Marhouni, who were hanged in Justice Square in Mashhad in 2005. Graphic photographs of the execution of the youths, who were under 18 when arrested, were released by the Iranian Students News Agency.
Gay rights groups in Britain, such as Outrage!, accuse Iran of cloaking executions for homosexuality with bogus charges for more serious crimes.
Under the Freedom of Information Act, the FCO released papers to The Times about the death penalty being used in Iran for homosexuality, adultery and sex outside marriage.
Minutes taken by an official describe a meeting between British and Iranian MPs at the Inter-Parliamentary Union, a peace body, in May. When the Britons raised the hangings of Asqari and Marhouni, the leader of the Iranian delegation, Mr Yahyavi, a member of his parliament’s energy committee, was unflinching. He “explained that according to Islam gays and lesbianism were not permitted”, the record states. “He said that if homosexual activity is in private there is no problem, but those in overt activity should be executed [he initially said tortured but changed it to executed]. He argued that homosexuality is against human nature and that humans are here to reproduce. Homosexuals do not reproduce.”
Nicole Pichet, a researcher who also took notes of the gathering, told The Times that the discussion began with British MPs discussing the underage gay hangings. Mr Yahyavi responded by saying homosexuality was to blame for a lot of diseases such as Aids.
Ann Clwyd, the Labour MP and head of Britain’s delegation, said yesterday: “It is of great concern that these attitudes persist and we made it clear what we felt.”
Iran, Mauritania, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, the United Arab Emirates, Yemen and Nigeria apply the death penalty for homosexuality, according to the International Lesbian and Gay Association.
Sharia’s victims
2005
— Homosexuals Farbod Mostaar and Ahmad Chooka sentenced to death. Iran said Chooka had kidnapped, knifed and raped a student
— A woman called Soghra was sentenced to stoning for adultery and being an accomplice to her husband’s murder
— Two men executed in public after being found guilty of a homosexual relationship. A newspaper said they were convicted of sodomy, rape and kidnapping
— Zhila Izadi, 13, sentenced to stoning after becoming pregnant with her brother’s child
2006
— Malek Ghorbany sentenced to stoning for adultery
— Leila Qomi sentenced to stoning for adultery and assisting a man who killed her husband. He received 100 lashes
2007
— Jafar Kiana stoned for adultery. His female lover Mokarrameh Ebrahimi sentenced to the same fate
Source: Foreign and Commonwealth Office documents released under Freedom of Information Act
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Σχόλια αναγνωστών:
Why aren't so-called civilized countries like the United Kingdom and the USA not standing up when it concerns gay people who are hanged, tortured and maimed in countries that are so-called friends of these countries? Pakistan, Egypt and other countries get hundreds of millions of support from these countries, but meanwhile trample all possible right of gay people! When does the hypocrisies of fi the UK and the USA stop?
Adrian Masters, Amsterdam,
The Jewish/ Christian Old Testament is of the same opinion as far as gay men are concerned ! Interestingly enough, there is no mention of Lesbians at all (Moses most likely didn`t know what they were), and I doubt if the Koran mentions them either. The question , however, remains....why should I be prepared to `respect´ religions that adhere to such barbarism ?
John, Berlin, Germany
(http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article2859606.ece)
Why aren't so-called civilized countries like the United Kingdom and the USA not standing up when it concerns gay people who are hanged, tortured and maimed in countries that are so-called friends of these countries? Pakistan, Egypt and other countries get hundreds of millions of support from these countries, but meanwhile trample all possible right of gay people! When does the hypocrisies of fi the UK and the USA stop?
Adrian Masters, Amsterdam,
The Jewish/ Christian Old Testament is of the same opinion as far as gay men are concerned ! Interestingly enough, there is no mention of Lesbians at all (Moses most likely didn`t know what they were), and I doubt if the Koran mentions them either. The question , however, remains....why should I be prepared to `respect´ religions that adhere to such barbarism ?
John, Berlin, Germany
(http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article2859606.ece)
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Πόσο χρήσιμο θα ήταν για μια πιο αντικειμενική ενημέρωσή μας επί του θέματος να είχαμε και την άποψη της Ιρανικής πρεσβείας στην Ελλάδα.
Κρίμα που, όπως φαίνεται, έχει επιλέξει ως πάγια απάντηση τη σιωπή.
Στην Ελλάδα που υποστηρίζει παραδοσιακά όλα τα καθεστώτα εχθρούς της κακής δύσης οι κοινωνικές ευαισθησίες καθορίζονται από τον Αλαβάνο και τον Λαζόπουλο.
ΑπάντησηΔιαγραφήΣτείρος αντιαμερικανισμός για πάντα ρε.
Γιατί δεν προσθέτεις και το τηλέφωνο της πρεσβείας εδώ να επικοινωνήσει όποιος θέλει;
Να το βρούμε μόνοι μας το τηλέφωνο γιατί άμα το γράψει ο Ερβα θα λένε ότι μας παρακινεί. Δεν είναι σωστό να το κάνει γιατί θα βρει το μπελά του.
ΑπάντησηΔιαγραφήΜη περιμένεις να σου απαντήσει η πρεσβεία σε αυτό το θέμα γιατί δε τη συμφέρει.
ΙΡΑΝΟΣ ΗΓΕΤΗΣ ΣΕ ΒΡΕΤΑΝΟΥΣ ΒΟΥΛΕΥΤΕΣ (ΤΑ ΝΕΑ, 14/11/2007)
ΑπάντησηΔιαγραφή«Βασανιστήρια και εκτέλεση αξίζει στους ομοφυλόφιλους»
ΟΙ ΟΜΟΦΥΛΟΦΙΛΟΙ αξίζουν εκτέλεση, βασανιστήρια, ενδεχομένως και τα δύο, δήλωσε Ιρανός αξιωματούχος σε Βρετανούς βουλευτές, σε ιδιωτική συνάντησή τους στο περιθώριο μιας διακοινοβουλευτικής διάσκεψης, σύμφωνα με τους «Τάιμς» του Λονδίνου. Ο Μοχσέν Γιαχγιαβί, μέλος της επιτροπής ενέργειας του ιρανικού Κοινοβουλίου, είναι ο πιο υψηλόβαθμος ώς τώρα Ιρανός πολιτικός, που υποστηρίζει ότι στους ομοφυλόφιλους πρέπει να επιβάλλεται η θανατική ποινή. Σύμφωνα με τα πρακτικά που κράτησε ένας αξιωματούχος κατά τη διάρκεια της συνάντησης Βρετανών και Ιρανών βουλευτών τον Μάιο, στο πλαίσιο της ειρηνευτικής οργάνωσης Διακοινοβουλευτική Ένωση, όταν οι Βρετανοί βουλευτές αναφέρθηκαν στον δημόσιο απαγχονισμό, το 2005, δύο ομοφυλόφιλων εφήβων, του Μαχμούντ Ασκαρί και του Αγιάντ Μαρουνί, ο Γιαχγιαβί «εξήγησε πως σύμφωνα με το Ισλάμ, η ομοφυλοφιλία δεν επιτρέπεται. Είπε πως όσοι είναι φανερά ομοφυλόφιλοι πρέπει να εκτελούνται- αρχικά είπε να βασανίζονται, αλλά μετά υποστήριξε πως πρέπει να εκτελούνται. Το επιχείρημά του ήταν πως η ομοφυλοφιλία είναι εναντίον της ανθρώπινης φύσης και ότι οι άνθρωποι υπάρχουν για να αναπαράγονται. Οι ομοφυλόφιλοι δεν αναπαράγονται».
Εξάλλου, ιρανικές εφημερίδες δημοσίευσαν έναν κατάλογο με «ηθικές εκτροπές», τις οποίες η Αστυνομία έχει βάλει στόχο να καταστείλει. Σύμφωνα με τον εν λόγω κατάλογο, «εκτροπή» είναι το να φοράς μεϊκάπ ή καπέλο αντί για μαντίλα, να παρακολουθείς «παρακμιακές» κινηματογραφικές ταινίες, να κάνεις χρήση ναρκωτικών ή να καταναλώνεις αλκοόλ.