They were convicted of 'spreading corruption on earth' — a charge frequently imposed on defendants deemed to have broken the country's sharia laws, the Hengaw Kurdish rights organization said.
on charges of promoting homosexuality, campaigners said Monday, urging pressure from the international community to stop the implementation of the verdicts.
She was arrested in October by Iranian security forces while trying to flee into neighboring Turkey after returning to Iran from Iraqi Kurdistan, where she had been based.Shadi Amin, a coordinator for the Germany-based Iranian LGBTI rights group 6Rang, also confirmed the execution verdicts, which she said the group had been aware of since Thursday but could now disclose after receiving permission from the families.
Amnesty International said in January that the charges stemmed from her public defense of gay rights on her social media platforms, as well as an appearance in a BBC documentary aired in May 2021 about the abuses that LGBTQ people suffer in the Kurdistan Region of northern Iraq . Before leaving Iraqi Kurdistan, Sedighi Hamedani had sent 6Rang videos to be made public in case she failed to make it to safety.
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