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Sep 5 • 7 tweets • 8 min read
Iranians are condemning a revolutionary court sentencing two #LGBT activists, #Zahra_Seddiqi and #Elham_Choobdar, to death for "spreading corruption on earth through promoting homosexuality". Same sex relations are punishable with death in Iran.
#زهرا_صدیقی #الهام_چوبدار
Rights monitor @HengawO: Iran revolutionary court has sentenced two #LGBT activists, #Zahra_Seddiqi and #Elham_Choobdar, to death while a third person, Soheila Ashrafi has been charged but not sentenced in relation to the case.
#زهرا_صدیقی #الهام_چوبدار
Writer @asieh_am pointed out that Iran revolutionary court sentenced two #LGBT activists to death after President Raisi voiced homophobia in a public speech and called homosexuality the "ugliest of behaviours" and "wretched". #زهرا_صدیقی #الهام_چوبدار
One user wrote that similar acts would have received international condemnation for being a "crime" if committed by Islamic State or Taliban but is seen as "normal" in Iran. She blamed it on Islamic Republic being "normalised". #زهرا_صدیقی #الهام_چوبدار
Another user condemning an Iran revolutionary court sentencing two #LGBT activists to death wrote the Islamic Republic has emerged out of "dark pits of history and kills people over their sexual orientation". #زهرا_صدیقی #الهام_چوبدار
Activist @Mohammad64karim wrote that "the ultimate point of fascism is domination over body", condemning an Iran revolutionary court sentencing two #LGBT activists to death. #زهرا_صدیقی #الهام_چوبدار
Afghan LGBT rights defender @Artemis_akbary reacted to an Iran revolutionary court sentencing two #LGBT activists to death writing: "Taliban's rule be cursed both in Iran and Afghanistan." #زهرا_صدیقی #الهام_چوبدار

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