Are There Two gay men about to be stoned in Iran

  

The announcement of the executions has caused outrage and dismay on the web in recent days. But an international association points out that it is surrounded by considerable uncertainty and calls for caution, while condemning the death penalty, whatever the reason.

The news this week is the turn of the canvas, mainly on LGBT sites: two young gay men were to be executed yesterday, Friday, January 21, Piranshahr by stoning in Iranian Kurdistan. According to some reports, they allegedly raped another young man, and even filmed their antics, and inclu-supreme insult-pictures of President Ahmadinejad in the film.

In fact, the exact contours of this case are very vague. Unusually, the American Association IGLHRC (International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission) took the pen in a declaration addressed to blogs and activists, making no official statement, to express precisely this beam uncertainties and make the state its own investigation. Earlier in the week, she even invited the American blogs that had relayed rumors to withdraw their paper.

Cry wolf

"This case is further evidence of much wider problems in Iran, IGLHRC wrote: abuse of the judicial system and censorship of information. People, including LGBT people are arrested, tortured, and convicted without proof. And it is difficult or impossible to ascertain the facts behind these suspicions. "

The problem is that there may actually be two men who are about to be executed ... but impossible to know if they are truly gay, gay, or simply assumed, or whether the rumors circulated to attract the sympathy and attention to real executions. Although the first site to broadcast this information is called the "International Committee against Stoning" - and that his cause is just - it is little known militant networks and its reliability is absolutely not proven. Not to broadcast information to the light and discredit similar information when they are this time proven, no international NGO "credible" has relayed the info.

Tural property executions

"What we know is that killing in all its forms is wrong, even if committed by a state," said Hossein Alizadeh, IGLHRC coordinator for the Middle Orien and North Africa . It is indeed all that can do this NGO, like others, condemned the executions in general, all forms of torture and called on Iran to cancel the execution, the practice of stoning does not criminalize homosexuality.

As a reminder, the international community had moved to the execution by hanging of two teenagers in 2005. TÊTU and was able to claim that five young men were sentenced to death (always by hanging) in 2009. Each time, after long and difficult audits ... What has not been possible in this case.

 

Paul Parant
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