Posted on 08/01/2005 9:57:45 AM PDT by alessandrofiaschi
To: Western political leaders
Gay teenagers executed in Iran
This week two gay teenagers were executed in Iran. Their only 'crime' was their sexual orientation. After more than a year of imprisonment, where they had already been punished with 226 lashes, both guys were hanged publicly on July 19th 2005. Mahmoud Asgari (16) and Ayaz Marhoni (18) are the next victims in Iran in long series of execution upon basis of homosexual behaviour.
These barbarian and medieval events have to stop immediately.
Gay & Lesbian organisations, Human Rights organisations, Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi, and even the Oposition in Iran are sharply judging the executions of these teenagers.
We call upon: -Our governments to sharply judge the execution of these gay teenagers; -Our governments to not send back to Iran asylum-seekers upon basis of their homosexuality; -Our goverments to reprimand Iran with economical and political sanctions; -Europe to suspend the negations on a associative treaty with Iran.
Let your voice be heard! Together we hope to make an effort to call upon our governments, asking them to make a strong signal towards the Iranian government.
Sincerely,
The Undersigned
To avoid any stupid misunderstanding, I am a conservative.
"Our goverments to reprimand Iran with economical and political sanctions"
Then these same people would go on a whining binge about how the west is starving and murdering poor innocent Iranis with said sanctions.
Their only 'crime' was their sexual orientation.... execution upon basis of homosexual behaviourInternally inconsistent. Their crime wasn't SSA, it was sodomy.
Okay, look, in the first place, online petitions are just a fraction of a hair away from useless. If anybody could point me to any instance where an online petition has had any effect at all, I'd be more impressed.
In the second place, are you certain that you have all the facts of this case? According a story about Asgari and Marhoni I found on the Internet, the International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission, Human Rights Watch, and Amnesty International (certainly three groups that could make much political hay out of a state that executed people for being gay), Asgari and Marhoni were convicted of sexual assault of a minor... a 13-year-old, in fact.
There is of course little to love about the Iranian criminal justice system. The regime is a tyranny, and like all tyrannies, it's tyrannical. I'd like nothing more than to see the mullahs in Tehran go down and go down hard. But it does the cause no good to spread falsehoods.
I don't agree with putting them to death, but at least they are taking a stand against it while we "the more advanced" are letting it spread through out our country like an open sewer.
I direct the ACLU to assignment in Iran.
Sodomy is not a crime!
ummmm .... we can barely stop them from building nukes or holding innocent Americans as hostages for a year ... what good is this petition going to do?
Let's all get a collection together for plane fare. Quick, there is no time to lose.
Yes it is.
But Rape of a Child is !!!
"We also know that the authorities have been giving conflicting messages. Some are denying that the boys were persecuted because of being gays and they put more emphasize on the boy’s crime (allegedly they have raped a 13 years old boy), but according to the boys lawyer the boys had said that they did not know that such acts (sexual relations with the person of the same sex) were punished by execution."
It is in Iran. And the petition misrepresents the nature of the crime.
Yes. I agree with you. The homosexuals are clearly trying to tie their goals into terrorism.
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