Gut-churning:

Two gay Iranian teenagers — one 18, the other believed to be 16 or 17, were executed this week for the “crime” of homosexuality, the Iranian Student News Agency (ISNA) reported on July 19.

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Last August, a 16-year-old girl was hanged for ‘acts incompatible with chastity.’”

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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 tdhat they were not aware that homosexuality was punishable by death,” according to the ISNA report as translated by Outrage. “Prior to their execution, the gay teenagers were held in prison for 14 months and severely beaten with 228 lashes. The length of their detention suggests that they committed the so-called offenses more than a year earlier, when they were possibly around the age of 16.”

Not much to say.

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