{"id":1723,"date":"2005-07-22T06:51:02","date_gmt":"2005-07-22T13:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/07\/22\/iran-executes-gay-teenagers\/"},"modified":"2005-07-22T06:51:02","modified_gmt":"2005-07-22T13:51:02","slug":"iran-executes-gay-teenagers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1723","title":{"rendered":"Iran Executes Gay Teenagers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t even think of anything to say. From <a href=\"http:\/\/outrage.nabumedia.com\/pressrelease.asp?ID=302\">OutRage!<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Two gay teenagers were publicly executed in Iran on 19 July 2005 for the &#8216;crime&#8217; of homosexuality. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Iran enforces Islamic Sharia law, which dictates the death penalty for gay sex.<\/p>\n<p>One youth was aged 18 and the other was a minor under the age of 18. They were only identified by their initials, M.A. and A.M.<\/p>\n<p>They admitted to having gay sex (probably under torture) but claimed in their defence that most young boys had sex with each other and that they were not aware that homosexuality was punishable by death.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to their execution, the teenagers were held in prison for 14 months and severely beaten with 228 lashes.<\/p>\n<p>Their length of detention suggests that they committed the so-called offences more than a year earlier, when they were possibly around the age of 16.<\/p>\n<p>Under the Iranian penal code, girls as young as nine and boys as young as 15 can be hanged.<\/p>\n<p>Three other young gay Iranians are being hunted by the police, but they have gone into hiding and cannot be found. If caught, they will also face execution.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/direland.typepad.com\/direland\/2005\/07\/iran_executes_2.html\">Direland <\/a>has the best article on this I&#8217;ve read. This atrocity has been getting more attention than previous ridiculous Iranian execution of teens, possibly because the photos (which you can see at Direland) are so vivid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t even think of anything to say. From OutRage!: Two gay teenagers were publicly executed in Iran on 19 July 2005 for the &#8216;crime&#8217; of homosexuality. [&#8230;] Iran enforces Islamic Sharia law, which dictates the death penalty for gay &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1723\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[115,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homophobic-zaninessmore-lgbtq-issues","category-international-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}