Tehran, Iran, Nov. 14 - A gay Iranian man was hanged in public on Tuesday in the western city of Kermanshah on the charge of sodomy.
Shahab Darvishi was charged with organising a "corruption ring", deliberate assault, and "lavat", which means homosexual relationship between two men or sodomy, the official news agency IRNA reported. Read More... http://www.stophonourkillings.com/index.php?name=News&catid=11 Posted by Joanne Payton / Monday, November 13, 2006 (19:22:30) / (20 reads) Justice
The lawyers representing two women sentenced to death by stoning for engaging in "inappropriate relationships" with men announced that their clients will face new trials this week.
According to counsel for Hajieh Esamailvand, the court in the city of Jolfa has summoned Hajieh back for additional interrogation on Thursday, November 16, 2006. Hajieh's counsel remains hopeful that competent legal representation and defense during the new trial will lead to the dismissal of the charges against her client. Read More... http://www.stophonourkillings.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=880
Iran: Girls as young as nine living on the streets Tehran, Iran, Oct. 21 – Girls as young as nine are running away from their homes and living on the streets in Iran, according to a classified report issued by the Ministry of Education.
The report was made public by several Persian-language news websites run by former government officials.
It notes that there is an exceptionally high number of run-away girls near Iran's holy cities of Qom and Mashad.
Iran has one of the highest record of runaway girls and women in the world.
The state-run news agency ILNA reported in July that there were some 300,000 run-away women and girls in Iran and that 86 percent of girls who ran away from their homes for the first time were raped. The majority of such victims are rejected by their families if they choose to return after having been raped.
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