Iran: three men hanged

Iran: three men hanged

Three gay men were hanged at Iran’s Karoun prison on September 4 under Islamic laws that mandate the death penalty for sex between men.

Iranian state media gave only the men’s initials, M.T., T.T. and M. Ch., and reported that they had been convicted under articles 108 and 110 of the Iranian penal code.

Article 108 defines “sodomy” as “sexual intercourse between men”, while article 110 reads, “Punishment for sodomy is killing; the Sharia judge decides on how to carry out the killing”.

“[These] executions for sodomy might be among the rare cases were the Iranian authorities admit to having executed men convicted of homosexual acts,” Iran Human Rights spokesman Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam said.

“Iranian authorities normally present such cases as rape, but rape has not been mentioned in this case.”

Three other men were executed at the prison on the same day — one had trafficked more than six kilograms of heroin into Iran, and the other two had been convicted of robbery and rape.

“In Iran, we don’t have homosexuals like in your country,” President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told students at New York’s Columbia University in 2007.

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8 responses to “Iran: three men hanged”

  1. This brutal killings and state-sanctened homophobia must stop and anti-gay sex laws must be abolised and repealed now!

    The death penalty is cruel, barbaric and a disgisting practice and must be abolished in all of it’s forms!

    I have been an Amesty International supporter and member since 2003.

  2. I forgot to mention that I am an American.

    To ‘@ says’, you must be stoned on some hash if you believe that there are no homosexuals in Iran. As for your ‘dickhead religious fanatics’ remark, the vast majority of religious fanatics in Dorina Lisson’s beloved Australia are your fellow Muslim fanatics.

  3. I happen to be a strong supporter of the death penalty and as such, I have had many arguments with Dorina Lisson. But despite our differences, I consider Dorina a dear friend. She is an honorable and decent young lady who is committed to the cause of human rights and I respect her for that.

  4. In the USA, the barbaric, brutal, cruel, degrading, inhuman and uncivilized death penalty is applied for pre-meditated murder.

    In other retentionist countries there are a variety of crimes punishable by death, including adultery, apostasy, blasphemy, drug-trafficking (soft or hard drugs), prostitution, homosexuality, sorcery, zina (sexual intercourse between partners not married to each other), individuals converting/preaching Christianity or Judaism, insulting Allah, corruption on Earth (can mean anything and everything), conspiring against the government, stealing petrol, tax evasion, and plotting to overthrow the Islamic regime.

    Executions in some retentionist countries remain a sordid public spectacle. The condemned are ritually humiliated by being paraded in public and insulted before being executed by beheading, hanging, shot by firing squad, strangled (hanged by crane), and tortured to death (stoning) for the crime of adultery.

    Don’t take my word for it … do your research (news of daily executions are online, outside Australia of course) and then face the facts – It’s time we all woke up to the human rights abuses taking place around the world!

  5. How do we know this is actually true?

    Where did you get this information from?

    Shouldn’t you have told us… Unless you were actually over there watching it happen..

  6. “In Iran, we don’t have homosexuals like in your country,”

    …..and we dont have dickhead religious fanatics like in your country!

    BULLSHIT!

  7. Thank you to the Star Observer for bringing this news to the public’s attention whilst all other Australian media continue to bury their heads in the sand.

    Sadly, the death penalty around the globe is applied for both violent and non-violent crimes. Contrary to popular public belief, the death penalty is not merely reserved for the ‘worst-of-the-worst’ offenders.

    The truth is, the death penalty around the world is applied capriciously and at random – a death sentence is a lethal lottery. Governments do not kill all those sentenced to death – they ‘select’ the people they want to eliminate.