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Aug 25, 2006 Articles: Over Hundred British MPs Condemn Iran’s Execution of Gays and Minors
By vanrozenheim

British MPs from all parties have now signed an Early Day Motion in the House of Commons condemning Iran’s execution of gay people and children.

LONDON, August 24, 2006 – British MPs from all parties have now signed an Early Day Motion in the House of Commons condemning Iran’s execution of gay people and children.

The motion, text is below, was tabled by out-gay Labour MP, Chris Bryant, who represents the south Wales constituency of the Rhondda.

“So far, 138 MPs have signed the EDM,” reports Brett Lock of the gay human rights group OutRage!, which helped brief the MP on human rights abuses in Iran.

“Many more would have signed had it not been for the summer period when lots of them go away.

“We are delighted that so many MPs are concerned about the persecution of gay people and of women who don't conform to Tehran's hardline interpretation of Islam,” he added.

Mr Lock also praised Chris Bryant for raising Iranian human rights abuses during the House of Common’s European Union Affairs debate in June.

“Chris made a moving, informative contribution to the debate, exposing Iran's increasing use of the death penalty for a wide range of crimes, including violations of Islamic morality,” noted Mr Lock. “When it comes to the barbaric hangings in Iran, Chris is the conscience of the Commons.”

EDM 2616: IRANIAN EXECUTIONS OF MINORS 19.07.2006

Bryant, Chris – Labour MP for Rhondda

“That this House commemorates the anniversary of the public hanging on 19th July 2005 of two gay teenage boys, Mahmoud Asgari and Ayaz Marhoni, in Mashad in Iran; notes that at the time of their alleged crimes the two boys were at most 17 years and possibly younger; further commemorates the hanging in Nekra in northern Iran on 15th August 2004 of a 16 year old girl, Ateqeh Sahaleh, on charges of un-Islamic behaviour; condemns these and all other Iranian executions of under-age minors, which are in direct contravention of the International Convention on the Rights of the Child, to which Iran is a signatory; notes that as many as 4,000 Iranians have been executed for their homosexuality since the Islamic Revolution in 1979; and calls on Iran to stop its campaign of torture, harassment and ill-treatment against gays and to end all executions of minors.”




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