He was beheaded by his brother and cousins ​​for being gay – News

They accused the young man of being “a shame” and a “shame” for his sexual choice.

The victim’s body was found under a palm tree in the village of Borumi, near the town of Ahvaz. The perpetrators of the murder were arrested by local police.

Alireza’s half-brother and cousins ​​learned of his homosexuality upon receiving a letter from the Iranian conscription office.

The statement states that Alireza was exempted from compulsory two-year military service due to “moral and sexual depravity such as transsexuality.”

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“There was no news from him until Wednesday, when Alireza’s half-brother called his mother and told her: ‘We liquidated him. “In other words, he confessed to the murder of Alireza. His mother was hospitalized due to shock,” said Aghil Abyat, a friend of the beheaded.

In Iran, homosexual or transgender people are exempt from military service. The murdered young man therefore planned to travel and seek asylum in a European country.

Having sex with a person of the same sex is classified as a crime punishable by the death penalty in a dozen countries.

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Among them, Mauritania, Sudan, Somalia, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Brunei, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Iran, Pakistan and Yemen envisage in their penal codes the death penalty for having sex with a person of the same sex, according to a publication International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex Association (ILGA).