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May 18, 2007
Quickie Link: Nepal Gays Ask UN to Save Arrested Peers in Iran
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By vanrozenheim
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(Nepal) - In a show of solidarity, Nepal's burgeoning homosexual community is seeking international support for the release of 80 gay men arrested in Iran. The Blue Diamond Society (BDS), Nepal's sole gay rights organisation, has sent an appeal to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, asking for his intervention to secure the freedom of 80 men arrested by Iranian security forces in Isfahan city eight days ago. Expressing deep concern at the crackdown in the conservative Islamic country, BDS said it had received information that the detainees had been severely tortured in Isfahan jail and were in a bad state. 'Their lives are in danger,' the organisation told the top UN official. 'We ask your timely intervention to secure their early release.'
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