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- From: act@csc.canberra.edu.au (Cyclops)
- Subject: Re: News of Iran
- Message-ID: <act.382.0@csc.canberra.edu.au>
- Summary: brief on recent history of anti-gay purge in Iran
- Keywords: homosexuality, Iran, fundamentalism, criminal justice
- Lines: 18
- Sender: news@csc.canberra.edu.au
- Organization: University of Canberra, Camaroon
- References: <1992Aug14.182514.10618@gateway.ssf-sys.DHL.COM> <hk5.de9g7@lab.ntt.jp> <0tanskg.rdc@netcom.com> <1992Aug26.073244.25007@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 04:04:20 GMT
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- glp5941@ultb.isc.rit.edu (Greg Pratt) writes:
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- >Iran has been particularly repressive against gays in recent history
- >(possibly due largely to its religiously fundamentalist government). When
- >the Ayatollah came to power in 1979, massive purgese of homosexuals began in
- >Iran. Gay persons were rounded up and executed en masses in town squares all
- >over the country. In May, 1990, Iran's chief justice announced a new
- >crackdown on Iranian gays. This included a list of five options given to
- >persons convicted of homosexuality: being beheaded with a sword, stoned to
- >death, burned alive, buried alive, or hurled from a great height. (source:
- >Lavender Lists)
-
- And here I was thinking that Iran had nothing to offer the world.
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- act@csc.canberra.edu.au Eye t'ought Eye taw a putty tat.
- Look Once... .-)
- Look TwEyece.. .-) .-)
- Half See... .-)
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