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Vor längerer Zeit habe ich hier schon einmal Auszüge aus dem iranischen Gesetzbuch über die Bestrafung von liwat (Analverkehr unter Männern) gepostet, um einigen absurden Vorstellungen über die Schari‘a entgegenzutreten. Wenn man diese kritisiert — und das halte ich für unverzichtbar! —, dann sollte man das auf der Basis von Tatsachen und nicht von Gerüchten tun. Da ich mir heute die deutsche Übersetzung des iranischen Strafgesetzbuchs durch Silvia Tellenbach ausgeliehen habe und die zahlreichen Falschinformationen über den unsäglichen Prozess gegen Zahra Ebrahimi einen aktuellen Anlass liefern, zitiere ich hier die Passagen, die sich mit den Ta‘zir-
Presserat lobt BILD-Zeitung für ihre „vorurteilsfreie Berichterstattung“ über die iranische Justiz.
Finally, Doug Ireland has gathered some further information about the two Iranian men who are scheduled to be hanged on August 27 or 28: (mehr…)
According to still unconfirmed information another two Iranian men are scheduled to be executed for gay sex in the Islamic republic. Even the day is said to be already fixed: it’s August 28. Doug Ireland, one of the first to report about the case, cites a leftwing exile organisation as his source:
In the last 24 hours I‘ve been in touch with Farhad Hoseini of the International Federation of Iranian Refugees (IFIR), who reports that two gay men — Farbod Mostaar and Ahmad Chooka — have been tried and sentenced to be executed for homosexuality on August 28, in the Iranian city of Arak. […] He told me that he and the IFIR had received the information about these scheduled new gay executions from members of the families of the two men whose death at the hands of the Islamic Republic of Iran has been programmed. Hoseini asserted that the men were to be killed for consensual homosexual acts with each other — such acts are punishable by death in the Islamic Republic.
Ireland is still trying to gather further details. Meanwhile, he hints at an alleged atmosphere of growing anxiety and repression in Iran:
As I noted in my latest article for New York City’s Gay City News on the hangings of the two gay Iranian teens in the city of Mashad on July 19, the climate of repression and surveillance of gays in Iran in the wake of those hangings has increased tremendously since the news of these barbaric executions went global and elicited world-wide protests. Hoseini confirmed that the IFIR’s contacts inside Iran also are reporting this crackdown — and he said everyone is afraid to talk about State anti-gay repression, including the families of the two men […]
Everybody has condemned the execution of two teenagers in Iran. Everybody? No, there’s one exception: Europe’s biggest newspaper, the German tabloid „BILD“. On July 27 it featured the following story:
Translation:
Here two child defilers are hanged
Tehran — Their eyes are bandaged, the wrapped-up hangmen put the ropes around their necks: A few seconds later those two child defilers are dead. The young men were sentenced to death before an Iranian court, because they allegedly kidnapped and raped a 13-year-old boy.
BILD is known for its bias to distort facts and smear people. BILDblog.de, which is exclusively dedicated to expose all the lies of BILD, runs a story about the BILD coverage of this incident. As far as facts are concerned: the two teenagers have never been accused of kidnapping. But of course, the real scandal is BILD’s thinly veiled sympathy for the court’s decision to hang two „child defilers“.
Meanwhile, the gay online magazine queer.de has bestowed its infamous „homo gherkin“ award on BILD for leaving behind all standards of accurateness and cheering the execution of two minors.
„Even kissing ‚with lust‘ (Article 155) is forbidden. This bizarre law works to eliminate old Persian male-bonding customs, including common kissing and holding hands in public. […] In the case of the two teens hanged in Mashhad, ‚they admitted having gay sex (probably under torture) but claimed in their defense that most young boys had sex with each other and that they were not aware that homosexuality was punishable by death.“
(via direland)