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Still of Alireza Fazeli Monfared from an Amnesty campaign video © AI/Instagram Alireza Fazeli Monfared, 20, who identified as non-binary gay man, found with throat cut Iran has ‘permissive climate for homophobic and transphobic hate crimes’ - Diana Eltahawy *New six-page briefing outlines how LGBTI people in Iran live in constant fear  Amnesty International is calling for a full investigation into the horrifying murder of Alireza Fazeli Monfared, a 20-year-old gay man killed in Iran earlier this month. There are fears that his killing will go unpunished in a country where consensual s...

Gay man beheaded by family in Iran while preparing to flee country Alireza Fazeli-Monfared was just 20 years old when he was murdered in a suspected honor killing 2.2kSHARES Alireza Fazeli-Monfared A young gay man was reportedly killed and beheaded by his family in Iran after they discovered his sexuality. Alireza Fazeli-Monfared, 20, was murdered on May 4 by three relatives near the Iranian city of Ahvaz, where he lived, after the country’s military exempted him from service due to “moral and sexual depravities.” According to IranWire, Fazeli-Monfared was visited by his half-brother an...

March 16, 2021 11:07:51 am Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Court on Sunday tried British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe on a new charge of making “propaganda against the system” one week after she completed a five-year jail sentence. Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a project manager with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, was arrested in April 2016 on charges of spying and later convicted of plotting to overthrow the clerical establishment. She was released last March and kept under house arrest until last Sunday as she served out most of her five-year sentence in Tehran’s Evin prison. Th...

Joint NGO Statement to Member States of the United Nations Human Rights Council 46th Session Your Excellency, We, the undersigned Iranian and international human rights organizations, call on your government to support the renewal of the mandate of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran at the 46th session of the Human Rights Council. We also urge your government to use this opportunity to voice concern at the grave and systematic violations of human rights reported by the Special Rapporteur, and to call on Iranian authorities to put an end to the endem...

Sasy Mankan is an Iranian pop singer who knows what his fans want. When the music video teaser of Tehran Tokyo dropped on March 1, it featured a cameo with American porn star Alexis Texas, arguably one of the most popular adult film actresses in Iran—a country where pornography often carries the death penalty and is banned on digital platforms, though people are still able to get around through illegal downloads via VPNs. Tehran Tokyo is quickly turning into the California-based Mankan’s biggest hit. Since being posted online, the Instagram teaser video now has over eighteen million view...