The verdict was announced in the last few days in the women’s section of Urmia Central Prison
For the first time, two LGBT activists have been sentenced to death in Iran. They are 31-year-old Zahra Sediki Hamedani, known as Sare from Nakade, and 24-year-old Elham Chubdar from Urmia. Both women are activists of the LGBT community. They were sentenced by the Revolutionary Court of Urmia in a joint case on charges of the article Corruption on Earth by promoting homosexuality, Hengaw wrote.
On January 16, 2022, the Prosecutor’s Office of Urmia accused two activists of the LGT community of corruption on Earth by promoting homosexuality, Christianity and media communication against the Islamic Republic.
Hamdani was arrested on October 27, 2021, during a trip to Turkey and at the border of this country, the secret services of the IRGC were transferred to the women’s section of the central prison after about two months of imprisonment in solitary confinement of IRGC intelligence detention center in Urmia.
She was denied the right to have access to a lawyer during her detention, and in addition to verbal abuse and insults to her personality and appearance, law enforcement officials threatened the woman with hanging and custody of his two children.
Amnesty International previously reported that Hamdani, a human rights defender and member of the LGBT community, was arbitrarily arrested in violation of international standards and held in Urmia Central Prison because of his sexual orientation, real or perceived. gender identity.
In doing so, while expressing deep concern at the death penalty imposed on these two individuals, the Hengaw Human Rights Organization confirmed that the prosecutor’s office and the Revolutionary Court of Urmia are among the most prominent courts in dealing with those politically, ideologically and LGBT accused with generally substandard fair trials and no respect for the rights of defendants. The organization urges human rights organizations to pay attention to the situation of the two people.
Recall that in the temporarily occupied city of Mariupol, the Russian invaders introduced the death penalty.
In the “DPR” the death penalty is “legalized”.
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Source: korrespondent
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