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16 May 2007

iranian police arrest over 80 at birthday party

Eighty members of the "Iranian gay community" were arrested when police raided a birthday party held at a private residence in Esfahan.

Some "80 members of the Iranian gay community" were arrested last Thursday by the police in Esfahan, according to emails being circulated on various gay email groups.

Quoting the Toronto-based IRanian Queer Organization, the arrests are said to have been made at 10pm on May 10 when police raided a residence where a birthday party was in progress. The police had allegedly assaulted the host who was identified only as Farhad, his parents, and all the guests before they were taken into custody.

The email quoted a quest, Peyman, who related the incidence to the organisation by phone: "I went to buy a gift for Farhad and so I arrived late for the party. As soon as I turned in to their street, I saw police cars parked everywhere; all my friends were arrested while seven or eight policeman beat them with batons. Fearing the usual punishments for attending a party, two had jumped from the second-floor window and were in a bad condition. Farhad's family were also arrested. Everyone was transported into a big car and taken into custody. All their cell phones are off and we have no information about the situation inside the jail."

Another guest at the party, Kia, was quoted as saying: "Guests had come from Shiraz, Tehran, Shahin Shahr to Isfahan for Farhad's birthday. When they were coming out of the house followed by the police, their clothes were ripped, their faces and bodies were covered in blood. They were beaten up badly."

Reports state that the next morning all those arrested were taken to court, and later to jail. The court is not permitting the families of those arrested to visit their children, and is not accepting bail for their temporary release. Several women were released the next day but the police are continuing to detain the men who are believed to be gay, said the report.

According to new information on the group's web site, the 80 young men arrested are under "severe torture and pressure by Iranian authorities but have not been officially charged" and are held for participating in a party where alcohol beverages were found, music was playing and young people were dancing."

The organisation also reported that it had received news that the arrestees were being tortured in jail and that their lives were in danger.

The statement reads (sic): "Obviously this crackdown is yet another systematic violation of human rights, along with brutal suppression of women's and labor's movements in Iran and must be strongly protested by all human rights organizations as yet another violation of people's private rights and liberties. This means that for now, what is urgently needed is to strongly object to this gross violation of human rights and the invasion of young people's lives and dignity.

"Since these young men are still waiting to be officially charged, it is imperative that interested organizations, for now, avoid naming these arrests as gay crackdown until further notification. We strongly urge you to be vigilant and alert for the next few days and we are immensely grateful for your concerned follow up until the fate of these individuals is determined. In the next few days we will do everything in our power to relay information to all of you especially if and when these young men are officially charged and sentenced by Iran's judicial authorities."

Based on a conservative interpretation of Islamic Shari'a law, Iran's laws provide for the death penalty if sodomy is proved either by a person who confesses four times to having committed sodomy or by the testimony of four righteous men.

In 2005, two Iranian teenagers were both sentenced to death for what some human rights groups claimed was "consensual gay sex" while Iranian authorities asserted that the two were part of a criminal gang that raped a thirteen-year-old boy.

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讀者回應

1. 2007-05-16 19:39  
Iran is too closeted because of their strong belief, more like a dictator for me.

You guys should check out some video posted about the Iranian gay, just type down "Iran's Secret Gay World".
2. 2007-05-16 20:34  
It is very sad news. Everybody should have a right to choose and love. Hope some international organization on human rights can do something.
3. 2007-05-16 22:20  
Sorry but its their own fault. They knew the police would do this. 80 gay people at a party? Should not have a function in this country like that. Why risk your life? I agree its wrong for the police to do this but its their laws, obide by it, risk ot or get out.
They will probably die.
4. 2007-05-16 23:46  
Time and again one wonders; is this all there is to Islam? They claim peace and blah blah..but look around you and the world today; all the terrorists, suicide bombing, gay bashing, women bashing, bombing of the world's oldest and tallest mountain stone Buddha, beheading Christian priests in E>timor, killing monks in South Thailand. Geez...you would think even a 3 year old can see there ain't no god in this religion. The pudding is in the pie & not just BS talk...

It's really hard not to be wary of the people who claim god is with them.
5. 2007-05-17 01:03  
I feel like bashing some str8 people after reading this. We should do a crusade and kill everybody that suspiciously looks str8. Muslim or not, I don't care. Str8 people are all scum.
What right do they have to bash, harass, emprison, torture, kill, etc. people on the basis of sexual orientation? And especially in this case simply because they were suspected of being gay and participating in a party? Anyone else thinks that str8 people have an IQ lower than that of dogs?
6. 2007-05-17 07:36  
What an amusing - if somewhat deranged - post from the person suggesting some Straight-bashing to redress the balance of assaults on Gay people and infringement of 'our' Rights.

Without 'Straights', where would 99.99999% of Gay people be?!

Oh... I guess the poster meant to go out and attack somebody Else's Straight mother, father, brothers, sisters, nephews, nieces, friends, neighbours, colleagues, mentors - just not His.

Right?

On a more serious [oh, all right, and Relevant] note, this is just further evidence of the ongoing generally dreadful version of human rights being managed by the current Iranian government, which stands accused of a wide-ranging list of poor human rights - and, don't forget, some praiseworthy attitudes as well - towards its citizens.

No country is perfect in its handling or a population, or beyond reproach for areas of generally perceived weakness [from an exterior point of view ], yet Iran seems to stumble more than most.

At this point, with an Irish twinkle in my eye, I note that I can't say too much here on this theme either, given the SG government is hardly a shining example of tolerance and success in its approach to Homosexuality either...
7. 2007-05-17 12:58  
Fool Iranian Goverment......
thx God that not happen in Indonesia!!
8. 2007-05-17 13:35  
Iran is a sick, opressed country run by a sick opressive government. Civilized countries opress it's marginalized gay citizens more discretely and more politely...in a more sophisticated manner. Iran, barbaric region of the world that it is, gets right to it blatently, brandishing billy clubs and with guns a blazin... while the whole world just sits idly and watches. It's difficult, nearly impossible not to be angered and apalled beyond words to express, by the constant injustices being inflicted upon gay people around the world.
9. 2007-05-17 14:18  
Iran is an oppressive, un-democratic country. Why want to hold a party over there? What's more a "gay" party with alcoholic beverages all flowing around? If I were any one of them, I would have used my common sense and avoid trouble with the laws, especially Sharia'a law in an oppressive Muslim country like Iran and of course, obey them if I were in Iran. It's better safe than sorry. Those poor lads, if convicted of sodomy or consuming alcohols, would surely receive death sentences.
10. 2007-05-17 17:21  
What right do these people think they have to judge other people. It is clear in whatever religion that there is only One that has got the right to judge, and it is not you and it is not them.
They claim the right the be happy and claim the right to deny this to someone that thinks or feels differently.
They will be judged, but not by me.
11. 2007-05-17 18:11  
It is so easy to blame one religion. Look at yourself in the mirror first. Religion is not the cause here . . . it is people like you who only wish to vent off some steam by beating up on the innocent. How different are we then, from those who are blind and ignorant?

Perhaps, we are all part of a larger religion: Ignorant
12. 2007-05-17 18:47  
My brother was killed in Iran (shot in the head while he was walking to his car one morning to go to work) many years ago. At the time, he was the highest ranking army officer stationed there to implement peaceful accords between the USA and that barbaric country. I have no love in my heart for the leaders of Iran, but TONS of compassion for all our gay brothers and sisters who are persecuted and executed there. I hope they can find safe asylum in compassionate countries.
13. 2007-05-17 23:05  
It is so sad that the human race is divided into so many tribes, societies, and beliefs. Some practice vodoo, some chop off heads and shrink them, some perform human sacrifices, some are cannibals, some are anti-gay and gay bashers, some are into child slavery, some even worship parts of the sexual organs like the penis, and some are responsible for the such events as the 911, the Holocaust, the Najing massacre and the Nagasaki-Hiroshima devastation. The saddest part is that all these were done in the name of Righteousness. If only we can come together and respect the lives of every human being, what a wonderful world this would be... or would it be heaven?
14. 2007-05-18 00:08  
it is just so unfortunate for those young men to be punished and brutalized with something that they didnt choose to be...
again, this event may cause many young gay men to be afraid to come out of the closet which makes them unfree, slaved by fear.
But, i just hope this event would work otherwise. I hope that those young gay men im talking about would be proud of who they are and use this to make a move with these kinds of human rights violations against gay men.
15. 2007-05-18 01:53  
Absolutely horrifying
16. 2007-05-18 03:50  
The one who are actually saying they are the police or law makers are the one who are more sexually obssessed with man to man sex...Ive seen and experienced this since I lived in the middle east....Too bad, those cowards are the one that should be punished!
17. 2007-05-18 13:12  
How sad I was to see so many open churches when I was in Beijing. If communism could not rid the earth of the soul devouring cancerous threat of religion , what could ? Both the Spanish inquisition and the present day Iranian inquisition have one thing in common ; religion.Didn't the Catholic , Moslem & Jewish churches all get together & agree to condemn the gay pride march in Israel ?
18. 2007-05-18 18:40  
just 3 words.. oh my God..
19. 2007-05-19 02:19  
There is so much hatred for gay people in Iran.
20. 2007-05-19 16:06  
Some extremies like to judge and punish other people on the name of religion without thoughtful consideration, so that they feel less sinful compared to the accused ones. They day will come for them.

For those gays in Iran, wish you good luck and may you have a brighter way to your freedom.
21. 2007-05-23 10:45  
well it seems to me that the police in Iran have nothing better to do than poking in their noses where it is not needed. how very 'civilised' of them 8-| Can someone please,please,please EDUCATE these ppl that what happens between 2 or more consenting adults @ their discretion is NOT a sex crime??!! Or is it true that , as they say " you can never teach a pig to dance; the more u try, the more irritated that pig becomes?" =p

Having said that, i'm really worried abt PLUs in iran n other mid-east countries. Seems like they've living beneath their dignity- & i thought Russia'a alrd bad enough :( I know this sounds naive, bt is there any way we are able to help them?
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23. 2007-12-08 10:36  




'Quoting the Toronto-based IRanian Queer orgaanisation'
many men were brutalised or murdered while having "queer" spat at them...even in that hideous book made into a soppy movie "Brokeback mountain' they rubber burnt 'queers'... the writer of this news peice is a disgrace...Queer for many is not a legitimate way to describe the bulk of same sex attracted pple, while it is true some Gay men are scummy queers not all of us are...it is not clever or revolutionary it totally dishonours the thousands of decent gay men globally who were brutalised while having it delivered with a fist or boot.... to negate a slur is one thing...to legitimise it is another use your brains pple.

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