Brutal gays

The horrifying murder of a 20-year-old gay man in Iran has shed fresh light on how the criminalization of consensual gay sexual conduct and gender non-conformity perpetuates systemic aggression and discrimination against sapphic, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people (LGBTI), said Amnesty International in a detailed analysis issued to mark the International Time Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Intersex-phobia and Transphobia. His murder also highlights the urgent need for the Iranian authorities to enact and implement laws to guard the human rights of LGBTI people. 

Friends of Alireza Fazeli Monfared, who identified as a non-binary homosexual man, told Amnesty International that he was abducted by several male relatives in his hometown of Ahvaz, Khuzestan province, on 4 May 2021. The next day the relatives informed his mother that they had killed him and dumped his body under a tree. Authorities confirmed that Alireza Fazeli Monfared’s throat was slit and announced investigations, but none of the suspected perpetrators have been arrested to date.

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Horrific bashings of five men at the hands of teenagers 'targeting' gay people detailed in court

Five teenage boys who brutally assaulted men they lured to secluded locations in Perth with the promise of sex, using the social media app Grindr, have been sentenced to terms in detention.

WARNING: This story contains details some readers may discover distressing.

Horrific details of brutal assaults inflicted by the community were aired in the Perth Children's Court, including victims being stripped, tasered, filmed and chased into traffic.

Judge Wendy Hughes said their behaviour could never be justified.

"It's really difficult to think that given your young ages that you would be so cruel to a human being," she told the boys.

One boy was sentenced to two years and two months in detention, the longest of the sentences, with the others receiving at least 18 months each.

Fake Grindr profile

The five teenagers admitted viciously bashing and robbing men they met in Perth using a fake profile on social media matchmaking app app Grindr to arrange meetings at night for sex.

What is Grindr?

Grindr is a dating and meeting online app predominantly used by gay and

Brutal Attacks on Russian Gays Revealed in Documentary

LONDON – A recent British television documentary airing on Channel 4 in the U.K. Wednesday shows graphic footage of violent homophobic attacks in Russia in the run-up to the Sochi winter Olympics.

The documentary’s entitle , “Hunted,” comes from comments by a man who was thrashed up and shot during an attack on a gay group center in St. Petersburg in November. “It’s like a searching for season,” he says. “And we are the hunted.”

Last year Russia passed a law banning the promotion of “non-traditional” sexuality – widely seen as an charge on gay rights. The statute makes providing information on homosexuality to under-18 year olds a crime.

“The LGBT group in Russia has been turned into public enemy number one,” said Liz MacKean, the investigative journalist behind the documentary. “And the fact is they are hunted, they are assaulted, they are humiliated.”

The film focuses on attacks by two Russian anti-gay vigilante groups, “Parents of Russia” and “Occupy Pedophilia.”

“The law clearly encouraged hostility towards gays,” said MacKean. “The LGBT community is being squeezed from the forces above by the government that passed the law

The brutal persecution of LGBTQ in Chechnya

Chechnya – Repression – LGBTQ

From 2017 to 2020, Chechen security forces arrested, imprisoned and tortured more than 150 people. Most were gay or bisexual men. The underlying issue is that, according to the government, these men do not correspond to the heterosexual image of masculinity in Chechnya. As a outcome, they are systematically persecuted.

Because these crimes committed by the Chechen government own not addressed at the national level, ECCHR and its partner Sphere Foundation/Russian LGBT Network filed a lawsuit in Germany in February 2021. However, the Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office has not yet opened any investigation proceedings focusing on individual persons, but continues to monitor the situation in an observational capacity.

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For many years, the civilian population in the Chechen Autonomous Republic has suffered from severe human rights violations by government forces. Most recently, particularly LGBTQ people were deliberately targeted, meaning people whose gender, gender identity or sexual orientation deviate from the two-part, heterosexual gender division. Since Russia r