Dubai, United Arab Emirates — Iran has executed two homosexual males who have been convicted on expenses of sodomy and spent six years on dying row, a rights group reported. Homosexuality is against the law in Iran, which is taken into account one of many most repressive locations on the planet for lesbian, homosexual, bisexual and transgender folks.
In line with a report on Sunday by the Human Rights Activists Information Company, the 2 males have been recognized as Mehrdad Karimpour and Farid Mohammadi.
They have been sentenced to dying for "pressured sexual activity between two males" and hanged in a jail within the northwestern metropolis of Maragheh, some 310 miles from the capital, Tehran.
Final July, two different males have been executed on the identical expenses in Maragheh, the group mentioned. It added that final yr, Iran executed 299 folks, together with 4 convicted of crimes dedicated as youngsters. Additionally in 2021, Iran sentenced 85 folks to dying.
Final October, the U.N.'s impartial investigator on human rights in Iran, Javaid Rehman instructed the U.N. Basic Meeting's human rights committee that Iran continues to implement the dying penalty "at an alarming price."
Underneath Iranian legislation, sodomy, rape, adultery, armed theft and homicide are amongst crimes that may result in the dying penalty.