Iran charges famous Kurdish
singer Mohsen Lorestani with being gay, faces execution
ekurd.net,
8/10/2019
Iran
has alleged that a prominent Kurdish singer is gay and under the Islamic
Republic’s anti-homosexual laws he could face the death penalty.
BBC
journalist Ali Hamedani tweeted on Sunday that “A famous Iranian singer from
the Kurdish province of Kermanshah [Iranian Kurdistan] has been ‘accused’ of
being a homosexual and could face execution. Iran executes gay men.”
Volker Beck, a German Green Party
politician and LGBTQ activist , told The Jerusalem Post that “It is a
perversion of unjust states like Iran and Saudi Arabia that alleged or actual
homosexuality is presented as an accusation that can cost you your life. It is
time for the international community to outlaw states punishing homosexuals.”
The Kurdistan Human Rights Network tweeted
that “Mohsen Lorestani, a Kurdish singer from Kermanshah, has been charged with
‘corruption on earth’ in a public complaint. His lawyer told Kurdistan Human
Rights Network, ‘The alleged incidents happened in a private chat.’ If
convicted, this charge could result in death sentence.”
Iran News Wire reported that “Well known
Iranian Kurdish singer, Mohsen Lorestani was charged with ‘corruption on earth’
by a court in Tehran for posting ‘immoral’ content on social media. ‘Corruption
on earth’ can carry the death sentence.”
The Iranian regime’s has hanged a
homosexual in January 2019 based on the country’s anti-gay law. The
unidentified man was hanged on January 10 in the southwestern city of Kazeroon
based on criminal violations of “lavat-e be onf” – sexual intercourse between
two men, as well as kidnapping charges, according to ISNA. Iran’s radical
sharia law system prescribes the death penalty for gay sex.
According to a 2008 British WikiLeaks
dispatch, Iran’s mullah regime has executed “between 4,000 and 6,000 gays and
lesbians” since the Islamic Revolution in 1979.
Hassan Afshar, 19, was hanged in Arak
Prison in Iran’s Markazi Province on July 18, 2016, after he was convicted of
“forced male-to-male anal intercourse” in early 2015.
In 2011, Iran’s regime executed three
Iranian men after being found guilty of charges related to homosexuality.
Ever since its emergence in 1979 the
Islamic regime imposed discriminatory rules and laws against the Kurds in all
social, political and economic fields.
Iran’s Kurdish minority live mainly in
the west and north-west of the country. They experience discrimination in the
enjoyment of their religious, economic and cultural rights.
Parents are banned from registering their
babies with certain Kurdish names, and religious minorities that are mainly or
partially Kurdish are targeted by measures designed to stigmatize and isolate
them.
Kurds are also discriminated against in
their access to employment, adequate housing and political rights, and so
suffer entrenched poverty, which has further marginalized them.
Kurdish human rights defenders, community
activists, and journalists often face arbitrary arrest and prosecution. Others
– including some political activists – suffer torture, grossly unfair trials
before Revolutionary Courts and, in some cases, the death penalty.
Kurdish armed nationalist groups
including PJAK have been carrying out attacks against Iranian
forces in the Kurdistan Province of Iran (Eastern Kurdistan) and other
Kurdish-inhabited areas.
Since 2004 the PJAK (Partiya Jiyana Azad a
Kurdistane) took up arms to establish a semi-autonomous Kurdish regional
entities or Kurdish federal states in Iran, similar to the Kurdistan Regional
Government (KRG) in Iraq. The PJAK has more than 3,000 armed militiamen,
half the members of PJAK are women.
Estimate to over 12 million Kurds live in
Iranian Kurdistan (Rojhelat).
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