Tag: execution

Human rights activists have questioned the speed in which the man was executed Iran has publicly hanged a man on charges of homosexuality. The unidentified man, 31, was executed after he was found guilty of raping two males, as well as kidnapping charges. He was hanged in the southwestern city of Kazeroon on 10 January. The state-controlled ISNA has claimed the 31-year-old kidnapped two 15-year-old males. The man then raped the two boys. Iran charged the man with laws covering homosexuality, not pedophilia. Iran’s homosexuality laws Under...

He saw it as his 'duty as a white man' Circuit Judge Ilona Holmes ordered the execution of Peter Avsenew for the murder of a gay couple in 2010. In January, a jury found Avsenew guilty of killing Steven Adams and Kevin Powell in north Florida. They sentenced him to death. He showed no remorse at the sentencing, and flipped off the victims’ families before being led out of the court room. ‘I have no regrets in my life and I am...

Abu Omer, known as "White Beard," was arrested in Mosul. An infamous ISIS leader reported to have overseen the executions of civilians suspected of being gay has been captured by Iraqi security forces. Abu Omer, known as “White Beard” because of his long facial hair, was arrested on January 1 after locals in Mosul reported he was in the city. The Islamic State has taken credit for murdering dozens of men accused of homosexuality in Iraq and Syria. Often the victims are...

Conservative Christian Pastor Steven Anderson is back at it again, this time around calling for an execution of all gays by Christmas of this year. How lovely. He echoed something similar three years ago, saying that it would be an AIDS Free Christmas if all the gays were killed. Steven is a pastor who resides in Tempe, Arizona, where he delivered a sermon at his church stating that gays need to be put to death in the name of God by...

Gay people, according to ISIS, are the 'worst of creatures' ISIS have murdered another supposed gay man in its vile campaign to rid the world of homosexuality. But in new photos released by Islamic State, religious police carried out an execution of a man they claim to be gay in pictures released on terrorism channels on 9 January. It shows the ‘hisbah’, or religious police, carrying out an execution of a man accused of gay sex, in Mosul, Iraq. An accompanying summary of...

Iran is violating international law by regularly putting juveniles to death. Iran recently executed a gay teen, reminding the world that it still regularly kills minors no matter what international law says. Amnesty International this week decried the hanging of gay Iranian teenager, Hassan Afshar, as proof of the country’s “sickening enthusiasm for putting juveniles to death” and as a “contravention of international law” that “knows no bounds.” Putting to death any juvenile violates United Nations covenants. Still, Iran hasn’t shied...

Where we live there are no such things as freedom and happiness. It is all death and suffering and I have found this on my own after my boyfriend received a death sentence simply based on his sexual orientation. You cannot possibly comprehend the pain and suffering that this has caused us and you cannot understand the evil of a society that will deny your basic rights, regardless of your suffering. I have been gay for my entire life, but...