Iran sentences two LGBTQ activists to death for “spreading corruption on earth.”
They were charged with promoting homosexuality and Christianity, the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights has said
The Iranian authorities have condemned two LGBTQ activists to death for “promoting homosexuality,” a human rights group claimed on Sunday.
According to the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, the Revolutionary Court in the city of Urmia in northwestern Iran imposed the death penalty on Zahra Sedighi-Hamadani, 31, and Elham Choubdar, 24, after finding them guilty of “spreading corruption on earth.”
More specifically, the defendants were accused of “promoting homosexuality” and “communicating with the media opposing the Islamic Republic.” According to Amnesty International, Hamadani appeared in a BBC documentary in 2021 and talked about the abuses the LGBTQ community faces in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. She also published a number of posts on social media in defense of LGBTQ people.
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