Persuasive Essay On Sodomy

the gender identity of the individual charged, for the fear of being shamed in the community. (We are a Buried Generation 2010: 34) “Perhaps the most controversial case illustrating the difficulty of accurately reporting on the execution of LGBT persons is the case of Mahmoud Asgari and Ayaz Marhoni, two adolescent boys who were publicly hanged in the city of Mashhad, northeast Iran, on July 19, 2005”. The two young boys were charged and convicted of rape of a 13-year-old boy after supposedly admitting to the authorities they had committed the homosexual act. Although their gender was never confirmed, the outrage over their execution, in addition to being tried as adults, was being executed for a rape that never happened, and in fact were involved in a consensual relationship with one another. (We are a Buried Generation 2010: 35) …show more content…
In 2005, the daily Etemaad newspaper reported that the Tehran Criminal Court convicted and sentenced two men to execution after discovering a home video of them engaging in consensual sex. On June 9, 2011 Iran Student News Agency reported that three LGBT individuals had been executed in Iran for committing sodomy. In May 2012, Human Rights Activists News Agency reported that four men were convicted of rape of a young boy and executed immediately. However, in an interview with Human Rights Activists News Agency, a close family member, aware of the sexual relationships of one of the four individuals sentenced to death, stated that the accuser had engaged in consensual sex with the four individuals, and he only accused men of rape after his gender identity was outed and became public. (Denied Identity