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IRAN: FOUR MEN DUE TO BE HANGED FOR SODOMY
May 12, 2012: Iran court has sentenced four men to death by hanging for sodomy.
Four men named ‘Saadat Arefi’, ‘Vahid Akbari’, ‘Javid Akbari’ and ‘Houshmand Akbari’ are due to be executed shortly after their verdict was approved recently by high court judges, according to a report from the Human Rights Activist News Agency (HRANA) in Iran.
The four men are said to be from the town of Choram, in the Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province of Iran.
According to HRANA, these four men will be hanged for having same-sex sexual intercourse (Lavat). (Sources: pinknews.co.uk, 12/05/2012)
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