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Gays in Iran remain in the closet

Started by LostInTime, September 30, 2007, 10:12:22 AM

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International Herald Tribune
By Nazila Fathi
Published: September 30, 2007

The Iranian Students News Agency reported in 2005 that a lesbian had been killed in prison by other inmates whom, it was alleged, she had forced to have sex. Tehran's chief prosecutor, Saeed Mortazavi, said in May in an interview on state-run television that the police were looking for men who dressed and looked like homosexuals.
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