{"id":2142,"date":"2014-08-12T18:06:42","date_gmt":"2014-08-12T18:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/6rang.org\/english\/?p=2142"},"modified":"2020-11-16T04:57:53","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T04:57:53","slug":"httpwww-pinknews-co-uk20140811iran-chief-justice-its-a-lie-to-say-we-execute-homosexuals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/6rang.org\/english\/2142\/","title":{"rendered":"iran-chief-justice-its-a-lie-to-say-we-execute-homosexuals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iran\u2019s chief justice\u00a0has claimed it is\u00a0a \u2018lie\u2019 to say the country condemns homosexuals to death.<\/p>\n<p>According to the government-backed FARS news agency, Judiciary chief Ayatollah Sadeq Amoli Larijani made the comments today while criticising Western calls for basic human rights.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cThat they say we execute homosexuals is not more than a lie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do not provide these people with opportunity, but what they say that we hang them is a lie that they have fabricated for the Islamic Republic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cWe only accept the Human Rights that is based on our religious teachings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe cannot abandon the Quranic teachings for the sake of your human laws that are being implemented in European countries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Because trials on moral charges in Iran are usually held in closed sessions, it is impossible to know how many people have been executed for same-sex conduct,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinknews.co.uk\/2012\/05\/12\/four-iranian-men-due-to-be-hanged-for-sodomy\/\">but four men were sentenced to death in 2012 for sodomy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two teenagers, Mahmoud Asgari and Ayaz Marhoni, were hung for homosexual acts in 2005, though the country claims they were actually guilty of rape.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/64119127\/Iranian-Law-Regarding-LGBT-Issues\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Iranian legal code<\/a>\u00a0does not differentiate between rape and consensual homosexual acts, with both punishable by death, though the judge can choose the method of execution.<\/p>\n<p>In addition,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinknews.co.uk\/2014\/06\/27\/iranian-lesbian-authorities-tried-to-fix-my-sexuality-by-forcing-me-to-have-gender-reassignment-surgery\/\">lesbians in the country are routinely forced to have gender reassignment surgery<\/a>, in order to \u2018fix\u2019 their sexual orientation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinknews.co.uk\/2012\/12\/04\/iran-reveals-more-than-1000-gender-reassignment-operations-in-four-years\/\">Over 1000 such surgeries were carried out between 2006 and 2010.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reference: http:\/\/www.pinknews.co.uk\/2014\/08\/11\/iran-chief-justice-its-a-lie-to-say-we-execute-homosexuals\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - 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