LGBT Asylum News ha enviado esta pasada noche a sus listas de distribución, este correo que a continuación os reproduzco, acerca del caso Nemat Safavi y de Mehdi y Moshen. En él se hacen eco de algunas de nuestras iniciativas e informan de lo que ya os informamos el pasado jueves. Esperemos que con ello se creen nuevas iniciativas por parte de nuevos grupos en más países.
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Iran is preparing once again to execute young gay men arrested while they were a minor.
Guilty of 'lavat' (i.e. sexual conduct between two men, regardless of penetration), the three teenagers do not yet have dates set for their state-sponsored murders, but according to Human Rights Watch and Iranian Railroad for Queer Refugees it could happen any day with no warning.
They are Mehdi P., from Tabriz; Moshen G., from Shiraz; and Nemat Safavi, from Ardebil and who has been detained for over three years.
Under Iranian law lavat is "punishable by death so long as both the active and passive partners are mature, of sound mind, and have acted of free will" — something that not only conflicts with the boys' age at the time of the alleged 'offenses', but also a gross violation of international law, which forbids, under any circumstance, the executive of juvenile offenders.
In 2008, the Deputy Attorney General of Iran announced that Iranian judicial authorities would ban the juvenile death penalty for non-murder-related offenses, effective immediately, pending parliamentary approval. Iran has signed two international treaties on the protection of children.
Nemat Safavi is part of the list maintained by Amnesty International of minors tried and awaiting execution in Iran. The European Parliament, the UN, and the Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi have all urged Iran to end juvenile executions.
Read more about the cases in the Human Rights Watch report.
Guilty of 'lavat' (i.e. sexual conduct between two men, regardless of penetration), the three teenagers do not yet have dates set for their state-sponsored murders, but according to Human Rights Watch and Iranian Railroad for Queer Refugees it could happen any day with no warning.
They are Mehdi P., from Tabriz; Moshen G., from Shiraz; and Nemat Safavi, from Ardebil and who has been detained for over three years.
Under Iranian law lavat is "punishable by death so long as both the active and passive partners are mature, of sound mind, and have acted of free will" — something that not only conflicts with the boys' age at the time of the alleged 'offenses', but also a gross violation of international law, which forbids, under any circumstance, the executive of juvenile offenders.
In 2008, the Deputy Attorney General of Iran announced that Iranian judicial authorities would ban the juvenile death penalty for non-murder-related offenses, effective immediately, pending parliamentary approval. Iran has signed two international treaties on the protection of children.
Nemat Safavi is part of the list maintained by Amnesty International of minors tried and awaiting execution in Iran. The European Parliament, the UN, and the Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi have all urged Iran to end juvenile executions.
Read more about the cases in the Human Rights Watch report.
What can I do.
This blog (in Spanish) is devoted to the cases http://nematsafavi.blogspot.
- alerting the media (there has been virtually no media coverage)
- contacting Iranian embassies (it has links)
Spanish, French and Italian gay sites as well as some progressives in those countries and a few elsewhere have been reporting their cases.
IRQR are asking for donations which they say will help with the legal case in Iran. They are also calling for "all human rights organizations to take up this urgent cause. We ask that people write, fax, call, or email to Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and any LGBT and/or international organizations to support Nemat and vigorously oppose his execution and the laws against homosexuals."
There is a Facebook group: Save Nemat Safavi
Youtube video about Nemat (in Spanish)
If there is any action you can take please do. As far as we are aware, these gay kids haven't been hung yet.
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Oirás palabras sucias en bocas ponzoñosas
que te dirán que lo que hicimos fue pecado.
Te escupirán seguramente,
y en sus ojos verás el odio de los envidiosos
y de los hipócritas,
de los que a solas, a oscuras, en sus casas,
lamentarán no haber conocido nunca
un solo instante luminoso,
una sola caricia verdadera.
Procurarán, bello Nemat,
a base de castigos indecentes,
que te arrepientas.
Pero sólo tú, bello Nemat,
en tu celda,
y sólo yo, aquí, tan lejos,
sabemos que no hay nada
de lo que arrepentirse,
porque la luz,
la última luz de otoño
acarició las sábanas,
porque en la mesa aún quedaban
los restos de los higos y las uvas maduras,
porque tu cuerpo caliente
y mi boca caliente
aún conservan el recuerdo indeleble
de una tarde de otoño eterna,
enfebrecida y plena, bello Nemat,
de gozosa juventud.
Recordaros que este Jueves tenéis una cita con Nemat Safavi. Queremos saber dónde está, cómo se encuentra, cuándo se promulgará la sentencia por el Tribunal Supremo de Irán. Pero también queremos que la prensa se interese, queremos que Nemat deje de ser anónimo, queremos que hablen de él antes de que lo maten en nombre de la ignorancia.
Os dejo a continuación este bello vídeo de Shangay Lily donde se apuntan estas mismas razones.
De fondo el Arco Iris símbolo de los derechos LGBT
LOS JUEVES POR NEMAT: Los Jueves por Nemat en Facebook