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Feral:
IRAN HACKS WEB SITES TO BURY ANTI-GAY POGROM
Doug Ireland's report is much longer than these excerpts, and is worth reading.
--- Quote --- Websites of gay Iranian organizations and of groups that support and advocate for gay Iranians were sabotaged and driven off-line last week by hackers for the Tehran regime, and are still off-line. The goal of the hack attack was to bury news of, and stifle protest about, the Islamic Republic of Iran's massive anti-gay pogrom. Among those sites shut down is the multilingual website of the Persian Gay and Lesbian Organization -- PGLO, Iran’s largest gay group, with 29,000 people on its e-mail list and secretariats in four countries. The PGLO website has sections in Persian, English, French, and German, and contains a raft of documentation of the horrors the Islamic Republic of Iran is perpetrating against its gay citizens, including photos of its torture victims and their wounds. The website also includes access to a monthly gay magazine in Persian, Cheragh, and Persian-language streaming radio web-casts aimed at Iranian gays.
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--- Quote --- Also sabotaged at the beginning of last week and driven off-line was the website of the militant British gay rights group OutRage, which has been prominent in mobilizing global protest against Iran’s reign of terror against gay people -- and which had just announced that it was about to release an important new report on Iran’s lethal anti-gay pogrom. This carefully documented and footnoted report, written for OutRage by Simon Forbes after a nine-month investigation, is based on public and press reports, official documents, interviews, and translations from the Persian; the reporting of Gay City News on the repression of gays in Iran is cited at several points in the report.
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--- Quote --- WEDNESDAY NIGHT 11:00 PM EST-- PGLO WEBSITE BACK ON-LINE I have just received word that the PGLO has succeeded in getting its website back on-line, but at a new Internet address, at http://www.pglo.net/ ; at this hour, however, the OutRage website is still down.
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--- Quote --- To get around the hack attack, the first part of the OutRage report on Iran has been posted on the personal website of OutRage founder Peter Tatchell.
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This is the same report that was referenced in my earlier post. Those who go to Doug Ireland's site should be advised that there is a new picture of Mahmoud and Ayaz, the two boys who were hung for homosexuality in Iran. They are clearly swinging from their ropes. While some might prefer to avoid such images, I think they are an important reminder of just what "all of this" is about.
Feral:
While the ongoing situation for gays in Iran is hardly new, a British report aimed at changing the UK's policies on refugees from Iran is.
Gay lynching continuing in Iran, report claims
--- Quote ---The Iranian government is executing gay and bisexual men under the cover of rape and kidnapping charges, according to a major new investigation by Simon Forbes of the UK-based gay and lesbian human rights group OutRage!
Mr Forbes’s nine-month investigation, published this week by OutRage!, is based on information gathered from sources inside Iran.
His research reveals lynching by Iran's security forces, and 'honour killings' by families in the south western province of Khuzestan, secret hangings in prison, internet entrapment of gay Iranians using foreign-based online gay dating agencies, and a pattern of framing gay people on charges of kidnap, rape and paedophilia.
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