Two teenage boys where executed, the news in Iran claim that they are gay. 10 years old boy was also executed not quite long for rape and murder.
Two teenage boys where executed, the news in Iran claim that they are gay. 10 years old boy was also executed not quite long for rape and murder.
On July 19, 2005, two teenagers, Mahmoud Asgari and Ayaz Marhoni, were publicly hanged in Mashhad, Iran. The Peter Tatchell Foundation and the African LGBTI group Out and Proud are organizing a memorial vigil to commemorate the tenth anniversary of their hanging.
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Following an unfair trial, Asgari and Marhoni were found guilty of male rape. Campaigners for LGBTI rights in Iran claim that because they were gay, they were executed. Human rights organizations from throughout the world, such as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, have frequently charged and hanged people in Tehran based on false accusations and scant evidence.
Images from Mahmoud Asgari and Ayaz's hanging
We stand for life, liberty, and love on July 19. When Mahmoud and Ayaz received their death sentences, they were minors. I still see the pictures of them crying in the police van on the way to the hanging.
The sight was heartbreaking. "We are trying to ensure that their state-sponsored killing is not forgotten and to show our support for the LGBTI community in Iran," said Peter Tatchell, the director of the Peter Tatchell Foundation and the person organizing the vigil.
"We also remember the many other victims of the tyranny in Tehran, including women, trade unionists, students, political dissidents, human rights defenders, and members of minority religious and ethnic groups."
Below is the contested and faulty evidence against Asgari and Marhoni.
The London 19 July protest's main demands are: The brutality of execution
Iran: Put an end to LGBT murders! Put an end to the murder of children! Put an end to the death penalty!
We implore you to:
1. Put an end to all executions in Iran, particularly those involving kids.
2. Remove the criminalization of same-sex relationships in the Iranian penal code and put an end to the arrest, torture, and incarceration of LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex) individuals.
3. Put an end to the repatriation of LGBTI asylum seekers and other individuals who have fled Tehran's persecution and sought safety in the UK and other nations, to Iran.
4. Show solidarity with all Iranians battling for human rights, social fairness, and democracy.
5. Reject any military action by foreign nations in Iran. Changes to the regime must be made within, by and for the Iranian people.
6. Disapprove of broad sanctions that harm common Iranian citizens. Only back sanctions that go after the ruling class and those who violate human rights.
Peter Tatchell continued, "We feel that the fight for LGBTI rights in Iran should be a part of, not separate from, the larger struggle for democracy and human rights."
Iranian political dissidents, labor movement activists, and the Iranian women's movement all offered us great support when we protested against killings in the past. The secret to promoting LGBT human rights in Iran is collaborating with these progressive societal forces.
The faulty and contested evidence on the July 19, 2005, execution of Mahmoud Asgari and Ayaz Marhoni in the Iranian city of Mashhad:
The claims made by the Iranian authorities against the two young people who were hung, Mahmoud Asgari and
Iranian officials have claimed that the two were between the ages of 18 and 19, then 19 and 21, then 18 and 20, and at last that they were both older than 18 at the time of their alleged crimes.
But the most compelling evidence is that both young people were minors—that is, only 15 or 16 years old—when they committed the alleged crimes, and that they were executed at the age of about 17. The Tehran dictatorship has signed international human rights agreements, which are violated by the execution of juveniles.
The purpose of hanging was to deliberately produce a slow, agonizing death through strangulation.
Regarding their offenses, it was first alleged that they were child molesters and had committed one rape; later, it was stated that they had committed multiple rapes. Rumors of the rulers in Tehran being serial child murders had begun to circulate by the fall of 2005.
According to certain LGBT activists in Iran, Mahmoud and Ayaz were homosexual. They contest the regime's allegation that they abused children or committed rapes. They claim that the teens' trial was never fair.
"There are rumors that one or both of the youngsters who were hung belonged to the Arab minority that is persecuted in Iran. They may have been presented by the regime as "underclass" crooks and hooligans due in part to racism and classism.
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