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Amnesty International has called for <\/em>immediate action<\/em><\/a> from its members around the world, asking them to demand the authorities of the Islamic Republic to release<\/em> Zahra Sedighi-Hamadani, known as Sareh, an LGBTI rights activist.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Zahra Sedighi-Hamadani, known as Sareh, is an Iranian gender nonconforming human rights defender arbitrarily detained in an Iranian prison.\u00a0 \u00a0Same sex relations in Iran is punishable by death and LGBTI activists are actively persecuted.<\/p>\n

Amnesty International has urged all to co-sign a letter<\/a> written to the authorities of the Islamic Republic, demanding basic rights for Sareh.<\/p>\n

\u201cI ask you to immediately and unconditionally release Zahra Sedighi-Hamadani as she is detained solely based on discriminatory reasons related to her real or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity and for the peaceful exercise of her human rights including rights to privacy and freedom of expression and association,\u201d the letter states.<\/p>\n

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Branch 6 of the Urumieh Revolutionary Court has accused Sareh of \u201cspreading corruption on earth\u201d including through \u201cpromoting homosexuality\u201d, \u201ccommunication with anti-Islamic Republic media channels\u201d and \u201cpromoting Christianity\u201d. These charges could result in a death sentence.<\/p>\n

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Sareh was arrested by IRGC intelligence agents on October 27, 2021, near the Iranian-Turkish border and was subjected to intense interrogations for 53 days, accompanied by verbal abuse, death threats, and insults directed at her identity and appearance.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI further urge you to repeal laws which criminalize consensual same-sex sexual conduct and which ban clothing and other forms of gender expression that do not conform to strict binary gender \u201cnorms\u201d, and to adopt legislation to protect LGBTI people from discrimination, violence and other human rights violations,\u201d the Amnesty letter stated further, pointing to the gross ill-treatment of LGBTI people in Iran.<\/p>\n

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Immediately after confirming the news of Sareh’s arrest, 6Rang released a video that she had recorded prior to her attempt to leave Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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