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young gay man was executed in Iran

Kermanshah. (HPD) According to the "International Committee against Death Penalty" was last night the 21-year-old Iranian Kurd Makwan Moloudzadeh in the Iranian city of Kermanshah executed His "crime": He is 8 years ago - as a 13-year-old.! - Have had a sexual relationship with a then 13-year-old boy also. Since 1979, Iran has executed at least 4,000 gay men. "But these massive violations of the rights of homosexuals should be enough to the leaders of Iran before the International to bring the Court, "said Mina Ahadi, chairman of the Central Council of Ex-Muslims and coordinator of the International Committee against death penalty, compared with HPD.

Ahadi According to the execution Moloudzadeh" a sad climax in the long wrong history of the Iranian mullahs' judiciary ". The International Committee against Death Penalty "was launched jointly with Amnesty International and other humanitarian organizations bailout Makwan. Under strong international pressure, ultimately, the Minister of Justice, Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi-Shahroudi, that the procedure had asked.

The local authorities in Paveh and Kermanshah, however, wanted to make an example. The youth had become insolent, had announced one of the officials. "The Islamic regime is trying with such executions create a climate of fear," said Ahadi. Could be different, the rule of the mullahs, as described by Ahadi "religious fascism", barely maintained.

Ahadi now wants to ensure that the case Moloudzadeh is negotiated in international forums. "Even for the Iranian judiciary is wrong this is a case apart," said human rights activist. Because section 1210 (1) of the Iranian Civil Code sets the age of criminal responsibility to 15 years in boys. Furthermore, the Iran as a party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights "and the" UN Convention on the Rights of the Child "obligated not to execute offenders aged under 18. Nevertheless, since 1990 Iran has executed at least 27 people for alleged or actual crimes they committed as minors. Michael Schmidt-Salomon

Source: Humanist Press