- Iran’s execution of two men last week for homosexual conduct highlights a pattern of persecution of gay men that stands in stark violation of the rights to life and privacy, Human Rights Watch said today. (2005)
- Mehdi P., from Tabriz; Moshen G., from Shiraz; and Nemat Safavi, from Ardebil, were accused in separate cases of committing homosexual acts when they were under age 18. No date has been set for their execution yet, but the lawyer representing two of the men fears that it could happen any day. (2009)
- "The three convicts were sentenced to death based on the articles 108 and 110 of Iran's Islamic penal code, for acts against the sharia law and bad deeds," the Isna agency quoted a judiciary official in Khuzestan as saying. (2011)
- The four men -- identified by the Human Rights Activist News Agency in Iran as Saadat Arefi, Vahid Akbari, Javid Akbari and Houshmand Akbari -- are set to be hanged after their guilty verdict was approved recently by high court judges. (2012)
- Iran's revolutionary guards have announced the arrest of "a network of homosexuals and satanists" in the western city of Kermanshah, close to the country's border with Iraq, prompting fresh alarm over the treatment of gay people in the Islamic republic. (2013)
source:
Iran: Two More Executions for Homosexual Conduct - Human Rights Watch - November 22, 2005
Three Men Await Execution for Alleged Homosexual Conduct When Children - Human Rights Watch - November 4, 2009
Iran executes three men on homosexuality charges - by Saeed Kamali Dehghan - The Guardian, Wednesday 7 September 2011
Iranian Gay Men To Be Hanged For Sodomy: Report - Huffington Post - Posted: 05/14/2012
Four Iranian men sentenced to death by hanging for sodomy - by Dan Littauer - LGBTQ Nation - Saturday, May 12, 2012
Iran arrests 'network of homosexuals and satanists' at birthday party - by Saeed Kamali Dehghan
The Guardian, Thursday 10 October 2013
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