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Jerusalem, Israel – The Islamic Republic of Iran has sentenced two Iranian women to death for their LGBTQ activism that facilitated media contacts with Christianity opposing Tehran’s clerical regime.
According to a report on Sunday on the website of the Norway-based Hengau human rights organization, “Zahra Seddiqi Hamedani, 31, known as ‘Sare’ from Naqadeh, and Elham Chubdal, 24, from Urmia, were killed by revolutionaries. was sentenced to death. Urmia court in a joint action on accusations of “corruption on earth” by promoting homosexuality.
Urmia is a city in Iran’s West Azerbaijan province where Hengaw monitors human rights abuses. Hengaw also said the two women were convicted of “promoting Christianity” and “communicating with the media against the Islamic Republic.”
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A day after Hengaw’s report, Iran’s state-run Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) reported the sentences imposed on the two women. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps — a U.S.-designated terrorist organization — accused women of “promoting homosexuality, gambling, fraud, promoting illicit sexual relations, and publishing on the internet.”
IRNA reported that the two women “exploited” women and girls for employment opportunities outside the Islamic Republic of Iran. The “misuse” charges relate to trafficking allegations leveled against women last year.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) arrested Zahra in November and detained the individual on charges of “forming a gang to support girl trafficking and homosexuality,” according to the pro-Iranian regime’s Tasnim news agency. rice field.
According to an IRGC statement at the time, one of the accusations against vague “trafficking networks” was that they “operated under the auspices of cross-regional intelligence services” and “contacted and assisted gay groups.” was.
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The Islamic Republic of Iran punishes homosexual relationships with the death penalty. According to a 2008 British Wikileaks telegram, the Iranian regime has executed between 4,000 and 6,000 gays and lesbians since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
The 6G Iranian and Lesbian and Transgender Network reported in December that Zahra lived and worked in Iraqi Kurdistan. Iraqi Kurdistan police arrested her after she interviewed her BBC Her Persian about jihadists in Iraq. She was imprisoned in Iraq for 21 days.
6G said Zahra was trying to flee to Turkey to protect himself and released the video in case he was imprisoned. 6G posted the video on her website. The Persian word for 6G is her Shesh rang, embodying her six colors of the LGBTQ+ flag.
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Zahra said in the video: “Today I arrived in Iran. The regime found out through my friends that I was here. You could be arrested at any moment. My life is in danger.” I’m trying to get out of Iran, but I won’t. I don’t know if I can.”
Alireza Nader, an Iranian academic, told Fox News Digital: Iranian by regime? “The United States should vocally condemn their persecution and make human rights a cornerstone of Iran policy. But words alone are not enough. We should take real action, such as putting pressure on the administration through “
State Department deputy spokesperson Vedant Patel, who was queried about the matter at Monday’s briefing and said he was aware of reports of the sentencing of two LGBTQ activists, told reporters: We urge governments to repeal laws that criminalize individuals based on their sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression and sexual characteristics. ” He added that he had no further details about the incident.
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Iranian-American journalist and women’s rights activist Mashy Alijennad tweeted: This act of terrorism must be condemned by the world. Be their voice.”