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October 04, 2005
SHOCKING NEW PHOTO RELEASED IN HANGING OF IRAN GAY TEENS
The Iran Student News Association has just released a new photo of the two gay teens -- one 18, one 17 -- hanged in the Iranian city of Mashad on July 19 as part of the Islamic Republic of Iran's lethal crackdown on gay people. This new photo, below, is even more gruesome and shocking than the previous photos of the two boys on the scaffold, and here it is:
You can see a larger version of the photo above by clicking on it. The two boys were charged by the Islamic Republic of Iran with "rape" -- but multiple testimonies from inside the city of Mashad and from gay Iranian activists and journalists inside Iran received and reported by me make it clear that the "rape" charge against these two hanged boys was trumped up by the government as part of its lethal anti-gay pogrom against gay people. Iran's hanging of these two youths was illegal under international law, because the alleged "rape" with which they were charged is supposed to have occurred when both boys were under 18 -- and Iran is signatory to two international treaties by which it is committed not to execute minor children. Moreover, the two boys were held in prison for over a year, tortured, and probably raped by prison guards and police before their execution.
This anti-gay crackdown is part of the crusade against "moral corruption" promised by Iran's newly-elected President Ahmadinejad in his election campaign. This wave of anti-gay repression includes torture, forced confessions, beatings, lashings -- and a wide-ranging campaign of Internet entrapment of gay Iranians, extensively described in my September 20 interview with Amir -- a 22-year-old gay Iranian torture victim who escaped to Turkey in August. In it, Amir recounts his arrest in a far-flung government Internet entrapment campaign targeting gays, his beating and torture at the hands of the police and the 100 lashes he was sentenced to just for being gay (this interview also includes stomach-turning photos of Amir's injuries). You can read this interview, which has now been republished world-wide, by clicking here.
For background on the new wave of anti-gay repression in Iran, see my previous articles: July 21 -- Iran Executes Two Gay Teenagers (Updated); August 11 -- Iran Sources Question Rape Charges in Teen Executions; August 12 -- Two New Gay Executions Scheduled in Iran, Says Iranian Exile Group; August 17 -- Iran's Deadly Anti-Gay Crackdown: With Two More Executions Scheduled, the Pace of Repression Steps Up.August 25 -- Iran's Anti-Gay Purge Grows: Reports of New Executions. September 8 -Iran and the Death of Gay Activism. September 20 -- "They'll Kill Me" -- A Gay Iranian Torture Victim Speaks of His Ordeal
The posters used in this post were created by Mike Tidmus, a gay artist living in Amsterdam, who has offered them as his contribution to the global protests against Iran's anti-gay pogrom. You can download them from Mike's website by clicking here.
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Kill people this way is so cruel.
Posted by: Online Pharmacy | Nov 27, 2009 5:04:02 PM
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, told us to judge people not by their skin color but by the content of their characters. How is homosexuality not content of someone's characters?
Posted by: Alex | Nov 21, 2009 6:27:04 PM
You poor ignorant people! Homophobia is a disease of the unintelligent. Read some books, see some films, talk to some people with half a brain and you will see the world is an amazing and diverse place. Stop being stupid! Open your eyes and your minds.
Posted by: Sean | Sep 16, 2009 12:35:46 PM
xye and jimmy,perhaps you should be hanged,for being yourself.wash your mind of your evil thoughts.your sick in the head!
Posted by: clive west | Aug 15, 2009 3:59:41 PM
get fu....off...14 years in canada . no jobs no respect racism, USA also more sucks as here , what you talking about you are more racist as mullahs
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people are born different. we all are special in our unique way. to kill innocent people because they are different is horrible. we should love one another. god bless these innocent boys.
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Posted by: save on drivers ed | May 8, 2009 10:31:30 AM
I am gay and a Muslim-Gay Sufi-Shi'ia, most of the Red-Necks on here have no idea what that means, but people like Lee and Jimmy in the UK(which the UK is one nation I WILL NEVER STEP FOOT IN AGAIN IN MY LIFE) Arrogant, rude, depressed, cocky poeple with bad teeth and skin. Anyways, Lee and Jimmy should be on trial Now for their NON-Sense Posts. To everyone else who wrote a post regarding the Harshness of Iran against gay people, Thank-You. I've been to Iran as an American. These ppl are the MOST HOSPITABLE PPL I have ver Met...The Taxi cad driver asked me to his home for dinner!!! Very kind ppl. Using Islam to Kill Innocent People. Sad. Thanks for Support against the Brutal Iranian Regime. Most (95%) of the Iranians want this Mullah-run gov't GONE! They just have no power to overtake them...(yet...)
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Posted by: hoolio | Feb 9, 2009 8:12:02 PM
In Occidental countries, it's quite the same: not a "fisical" hanging, but social.
That means no career, etc...specially because of the presence of the church (a LOT of priest (official church) are paedos, but does not go to jail.)
What astonish me, was the presence of all these bystanders watching, considering that they may have childrens that age at home. 16, 17, 18, or 24years old...They are still kids!
I'm 39, former Security Officer (my gun was used ONLY to protect people in need, and consider that I hate weapons).
Hate generates hate, and caused by ignorance.
Fight ignorance. Not people.
Baci.
Posted by: yuri | Jan 5, 2009 10:03:43 AM
Remember there's a little "good" in everyone!
Posted by: Dave | Oct 31, 2008 2:48:03 PM
The time for acceptance of prodigious whether it be for, race, heritage, religion, or sexual preference has passed.
The American Medical Association, has researched the gay issue for a very long time and has finally stated that it is normal for some people to have an attraction to their own sex. That it is not a mental disorder, just different.
It is not normal for the majority of people because only ten percent of the population is gay. That fact however doesn’t make it wrong, but as stated, just different.
It was never a choice as many seem to think. Do you remember making a decision that girls no longer had cooties, and started being attractive. If you can, I suggest psychiatric help. Nor do I remember waking up and deciding that men were still my attraction. They just were.
If one were to chose, don't you think that we would have taken the accepted path, rather than pick a life that sometimes puts us at odds with the majority. I am comfortable being gay, but I'm not brain dead. Think about it.
Women seem to have a easier time understanding that it’s alright; although many of them don’t understand ether. Men seem to be more into overlooking lesbians than gay men. As a mater of fact some of those men find two women going at it stimulating, when the thought of two men makes them sick, and mad. A simple cure for that is don’t think about it. Some misguided men seem to find this as some sort of an insult, or threat, to their manhood. The only people who should care who you go to bed with is you and your bed partner. It really isn’t anybody’s business, or going to change their lives one bit. Being gay is not contagious.
Yes; there are those who keep perusing people they shouldn’t and don’t seem to know when to stop. I’m not trying to justify their actions, and I realize that they can be quite annoying. Anyone has a right to object to this type of stalking behavior. Not liking a individual for a reason like that is understandable, but assuming that all gay people are like that is just plain wrong and idiotic.
I have a hard time with bigots personally as well, but I’m not into seeing them hanged or killed, just educated. The world needs more education and compassion, not more killings.
We sure don’t need any religious fanatics setting our laws. I do feel that separation of church and state was one of our better ideas, although it wasn’t always practiced. The Salem Witch Hunts, and putting citizens in chalks in the town square for working on the Sundays, lay testament to that.
Christianity had its days of persecution as well. The Spanish Inquisition, again the Salem Witch Hunts, and the like. However when we started remembering that “Thou Shall Not Kill”, had no list of exceptions attached we stopped with such nonsense, for the most part. Again there are exceptions. State Executions, but we try to reserve that for the worst of the worst. Just mass murders, treason in extreme cases, that threaten the welfare of the state. We aren’t saints ether, but we as a state never execute children.
Iran even held the two teens they executed for over two years, subjecting them to lashings, and torture for the whole time. Then they even falsely accused them of raping a twelve-year-old, that at the time they were supposed to have done this, would put them at twelve-years-old as well. This, just to try and get the international community to look at this as being justified. It didn’t work. Even when they hung Mahmoud Asgari, who was only 16-years-old, and Ayaz Marhoni who had just turned 18. they didn’t want the torture to stop, so they had a short drop that would just strangle them, rather than break their necks, and would be quick, and even went as far as removing their blindfolds so each would have to see the one they loved die, and see the crowd watching on, as they drew their last breaths. The way these hangings were done was nothing short of sadistic.
What Iran has for a government is not a religious group, but a cult that condones terror on a global scale, and like the Christian Revelations Extremist, feel that if everybody dies that only they will come back. With no regard, what so ever, for. the billions of peaceful Muslims, Christians, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, and even non believers just trying to live out their lives in peace. Remember; these are the same people who feel that having a seventeen year old boy give up his life is alright if he kills a group of people, even children, who don’t share the same beliefs that they do. Also, those who are so proud of killing Americans and children that they ware face masks to hide who they are.
I do share one belief with then; that God, indeed, knows who they are, but I don’t think he’ll be very proud of what they’ve done, nor give them medals, or bless them for it.
Remember the Nazi’s were proud of what they were doing also, but most of them new it was wrong. But at least they had the guts to show their faces when they were doing it.
Their Ayatollah Khomeini, said, “They had no interest in nuclear weapons, that they were one of the Devil’s tools. Their new Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, I guess has another opinion, as does their President Mr Ahmadinejad. This is the same guy who said to a bunch of college students that Iran had no homosexuals. He supposedly has a college degree himself, and couldn’t understand why they just wouldn’t buy that lie. Their government now is racing head on to acquire weapons of mass destruction as soon as possible. At that point I feel the whole world will be in trouble.
At least when we and The Soviet Union, were both playing the mutually assured destruction game, we both knew that neither side was rash enough to use them. We were both aware of what their use could bring.
Can we be so sure about a government that regularly kills children, and almost anyone who disagrees with them in any way. That totally ignores international laws.
A revolutionary government that started out with cruelty and a total lack of regard for the laws the rest of the world lives by. Point in question; The taking of our embassy staff hostage, which in international law is a flagrant act of war. A government which started out by putting seventeen year old Kurdish Muslims, and other high school kids that just wanted to keep living in the twentieth century in front of firing squads and shot them for nothing more than not liking the way things were going. And was lead by a leader that was alive only because the French Government, which is a great democracy, gave him a place to live in exile, which he later called stupid for not killing him. Gratitude doesn’t seem to have a place in these guys hearts. Nor, apparently, does a loving God.
And they call us the great Satin. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.
I do hope they realize what they are doing, or a saner element gets a foot hold in Iran sometime soon. We don’t need more killings of children or soldiers. And we don’t need anymore wars. There is no such thing as a holy war. God has no use for war. It is one of mankind’s un-holiest inventions.
Posted by: TC | Oct 3, 2008 5:00:33 PM
Those who live by the sword will die by the sword.revenge is a dish best served up cold and those who slaughter the innocent.Will feel the blade of History.You disgrace the very name of persia and its History by such vile acts.you blindfold the eyes of kids to hide your own shame.But your time will come the scum always floats too the top.Your Power is like grains of sand falling through you fingers.you will not hold on to it.
Posted by: josh | Sep 6, 2008 7:59:22 PM
I find that this is like China cracking down on youth who want the freedom enjoyed in the West but
Iran wants to silence the College and young Iranian kids who know better but what better way could these backwards Country leaders of Iran who kill anyone and lie about the reason they were executed just to justify their cruel punishment
on the these two young gay men and other teens that have been put death by hanging. The cities of Sodom & Gamora were destroyed not because of the homosexuality of the people who lived there the were destroyed because they worshiped sex Gods and gave their babies up to sacfice to false gods and tried to rape the Angels who visted Lot. This account in the Bible was about hosipitality and the lack of it when the Angels came to visit. The Iranian government has no basis to use this as an excuse to put these young gay teens or young adults or any other Gay people to death by hanging them and letting its sick public get off on it! Their time will come when the true God Jehovah and his son Jeus Christ his choice of King to rein for a thousand years will destroy these evil country's with an Iron septer and dash them to pieces like a potters vessel of clay! Revelation! We should love all people who can show love and hate those rule unfairly and unjustly because we are all from one man Adam the father of all nations and peoples! The meek shall inherit the earth and be left over in it! I feel
the pain of those poor boys who couldn't escape the the wicked government penalty but these country rulers will pay one day soon!
Posted by: Joseph Wolf | Jul 17, 2008 1:46:27 AM
My heart bleeds for these boys. I feel outraged. I have read the Koran and I have experienced prejudice in Egypt. "Ya Alk" they would cry. I can take verbal abuse. I have stood up to many and voiced my protest. These boys were helpless. If there were any to speak for them they could not for fear of punishment. This is the hell on Earth for Arabic Gays.I aim to show these photos when I return to Egypt and have friends there tell me if they condone this. If they say yes I know I must either discuss this with them or if their opinion is extreme and not for changing then I must dismiss them as friends. Rest in Peace Mahmoud and Ayaz.
Posted by: PINKPOWER | Jul 14, 2008 7:08:50 PM
I had first seen these photos last year. I am still as shocked and moved by them now as before. I came upon them having researched Islam and Homosexuality on account of going to Egypt. Although Conservative Egypt is not as extreme although it is necessary to be careful. As a gay man I have had mixed reactions. I have never met an openly gay Egyptian. I do know of a man in Aswan who freely admits to engaging in Anal sex with a boy. This I found shocking. I had known him to do sex with boys but not that young. He said if he had a girl he would not do sex with a boy. Knowing this man as I do I know he can have someone do something under threat of violence. However I am given the impression he does this under consent. But what if the boy was to be found out? Would he stick by the boy? Would he speak up for him if the Police were to discover this. I made him aware that such an acts with a boy of his age are against the law in England. They seem to find it acceptable. A boys beauty and sexual longings just doesn't suddenly emerge at the age of consent, however at his age he shouldn't give himself to a man of 27.I worry for this boy.
Posted by: Pinkpower | Jul 14, 2008 6:59:08 PM
Dont worry guys we just finished with Iraq...IRAN will be the next... the western world IS WATCHING YOU...ISRAEL WILL START AND WE, THE REST WILL FINISH YOU.... SOON YOU GONNA SEE THE HELL.. YOU, COUNTRY MADE OF SHITS...YOU GONNA DISAPEAR FROM THE WORLD MAP....NO THIS IS NOT ANCIENT PERSIA..THIS IS JUST STINKY IRAN...YOU ARE NOT PERSIANS YOU ARE DOGS....I WANT TO SEE IRAN IN FLAMS...NUCLEAR FLAMES..
BULGARIAN
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Posted by: colourful photos | Jun 18, 2008 12:59:22 AM
I think if I had an opportunity I'd be glad to help all people, forced by the Iranian government, to escape to some more liberal and tolerant country
Posted by: Mikhail | May 14, 2008 7:06:35 AM
Although I don't think homosexuality is something normal, I really feel sorry for about 6 - 7 per cent of the world population, for how, and in what conditions they are doomed to live. These 2 boys were murdured for something they couldn't changed, they were hanged for just BEING. The regime in their country couldn't accept them, and I'm endlessly sorry and sorrowful for these 2 boys, esp. regarding the fact they were so young.
Malinin Mikhail
Russia
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Now if only they'd institute the same punishment for homosexuals and pederasts in the UK.
Posted by: jimmy | Apr 4, 2008 9:47:52 AM
I am so proud of Iran. Kill all fags now
Posted by: Zye | Mar 31, 2008 5:04:41 AM
