Amnesty International is calling for a full investigation into the horrifying murder of Alireza Fazeli Monfared, a 20-year-old gay man killed in Iran earlier this month.There are fears that his killing will go unpunished in a country where consensual same-sex sexual conduct and gender non-conformity is criminalised and stigmatised.To mark International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Intersexphobia and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT), Amnesty has published a six-page briefing outlining how the Iranian authorities criminalise consensual same-sex relations, including through the application of the death penalty and flogging, while banning clothing, hairstyles and other forms of gender expression that do not conform to strict binary gender “norms”
