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Nov 16, 2006
Articles: Background Information for Recent Iran execution by Doug Ireland
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By vanrozenheim
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DOUG IRELAND: It is not clear why the Iranian government chose to make public the charge of "sodomy" against Darvishi. Since the world-wide protests over the hanging of two gay teenagers in the city of Mashad on July 19 2005, the Iranian government has refrained from announcing executions for homosexual acts, which are a capital crime under Iranian law. Reporting on events inside Iran, in which the media and the press are tightly controlled and censored by the government, is always difficult -- and this is even more true in any case involving homosexuality.
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