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Persecution of gays in Iran

For the journalist Douglas Ireland, my friend Houman Sarshar has translated from Persian a twenty-two-year-old gay Iranian’s account of entrapment and torture by Iranian security officials and vigilantes. The man is now a refugee in Turkey and is seeking asylum. His testimony suggests that the lives of gays in Iran has become very grim since the hanging last year of two gay teenagers.

Posted on 21 September 2005Author Caleb CrainCategories miscellaneous matters

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