Iran has imposed the death penalty on two LGBTQI activists, according to rights groups.
Hengaw Human Rights Organization, a group that monitors rights violations in Kurdistan in Iran, reported that lesbian activists 31-year-old Zahra Sediqi Hamedani, alias Sareh from Naqadeh, and 24-year-old Elham Chubdar from Urmia, were sentenced to death by the Revolutionary Court of Urmia on charges of “corruption on earth through the promotion of homosexuality”.
A third LGBTQI activist Soheila Ashrafi, 52, from Urmia who is also lodged in the Urmia Central Prison along with Sareh and Elham, was awaiting verdict on similar charges.
Iran has imposed the death penalty on two LGBTQI activists, according to rights groups.
Hengaw Human Rights Organization, a group that monitors rights violations in Kurdistan in Iran, reported that lesbian activists 31-year-old Zahra Sediqi Hamedani, alias Sareh from Naqadeh, and 24-year-old Elham Chubdar from Urmia, were sentenced to death by the Revolutionary Court of Urmia on charges of “corruption on earth through the promotion of homosexuality”.
Before her arrest, Sareh had made three videos about her ordeal and also her earlier arrest for appearing in a BBC documentary. “I was kept in solitary confinement because I am homosexual. I was electrocuted. Those 21 days felt like 21 years,” Sareh had said.
Read the article by Shibu Thomas in the Star Observer.