Iraqi LGBT (additional video at link) released this video of an M2F transgendered person in the hands of the Iraqi police. Her male name is Ali, and she was living her life as a woman. She had been living in a safe house in Basra for those threatened with death. The video was apparently made by the pigs for their amusement and is disturbing in the fact that in addition to showing the police standing around and laughing and making crude remarks in Arabic about Ali's sexuality, it is also dubbed with hate and revenge music in Arabic.
Describing the video, Ali Hili, an Iraqi exile and founder and coordinator of Iraqi LGBT said, "Clearly this is a very feminine-looking man dressed as an Iraqi woman, heavy-set and all dressed in a black traditional garment and veil. He is very sad looking and, you can tell very fearful for what may be coming his way, as off to the side there is a policeman with hair clippers preparing to shave the long black feminine hair from Ali's head. Ali bends over as they shave him. Clearly he has been held for a day or two as he has a growth of a beard in the shaving scene whereas he did not in the beginning of the video. They proceed to shave his head completely [a profound insult to Arabs] and have him stand up to face the cameras and this is where the video ends. We have no word or idea of what has taken place since the video was shot. We are hoping and praying that Ali is still alive." More at: GayCityNewsBlackGayArab
Makvan Mouloodzadeh, 21, Murdered by Iran
Makvan Mouloodzadeh has been adopted post-mortem by United Gay Force. His sexual orientation was never known, so statistics undoubtedly point toward his heterosexuality.
[Read the Nov 05 2007 ILGHRC Action Alert]
This independent United Gay World Force Communications Unit no longer recognizes any honorific titles claimed below, but here are their official addresses:
Speaker of the Islamic Consultative Council (Parliament), His Excellency Dr. Gholam-Ali Haddad Adel hadadadel@majlis.ir
Minister of Foreign Affairs, His Excellency Mr. Manuchehr Motaki matbuat@mfa.gov.ir
Please also email a copy of your correspondence to IGLHRC at: halizadeh@iglhrc.org
Chief Justice of Iran, Ayatollah Seyed Mahmoud Hashemi Shahrudi, is legally impotent
Special Supervision Bureau of Justice Department mocks Shahrudi as a powerless figurehead
Although Chief Justice Ayatollah Seyed Mahmoud Hashemi Shahrudi nullified the impending death sentence of Makvan Mouloodzadeh in his Nov 10 2007 ruling (1/86/8607), and described Makvan Mouloodzadeh's sentence of death to be in violation of Islamic teachings, in violation of the religious decrees of high-ranking Shiite clerics, and in violation of the law of the land, the Chief Justice of Iran was legally mocked and ignored by those who went ahead on their own and illegally murdered 21-year-old Makvan Mouloodzadeh.
While it was a 21-year-old body hung to death by the Special Supervision Bureau of the Justice Department, the accused person inside that body was only a 13-year-old boy, wrongfully murdered for actions which did not happen, against non-existent victims.
Makvan Mouloodzadeh and each of the non-victims recanted and testified in court about giving incriminating statements only after extended abuse by police. The district attorney's office - which has no jurisdiction in such cases under Iranian law - "investigated." With no evidence, Makvan Mouloodzadeh's judge decided he had seen and heard enough to decide on his own that Makvan Mouloodzadeh was guilty of adult crimes committed when he was a child: guilt which is impossible under Iranian law, Islamic law and international law, using a special judicial tool to be used under very specific circumstances, none matching the characteristics of the case against Makvan Mouloodzadeh.
The Special Supervision Bureau of the Iranian Justice Department is more powerful than the legally flaccid Iranian Chief Justice. These more important men are a designated group of judges who are supposed to be responsible for reviewing and ordering the retrials of flawed cases flagged by the Iranian Chief Justice.
The Special Supervisions Bureau openly belittled the Iranian Chief Justice - as the world watched, listened and recorded for history - by ordering the local authorities to carry out the illegal execution anyway, which they did in secret, without the legally mandated witnesses and without following basic Iranian and Islamic laws covering the state execution process.
What Iranian Chief Justice Ayatollah Seyed Mahmoud Hashemi Shahrudi says doesn't matter to anyone, because the Special Supervision Bureau of the Iranian Justice Department is much more important. The Special Supervision Bureau has proven that they do not have to pay any attention to the useless Chief Justice living beneath their shoes.
James Kerr, 51, Murdered in England
Life sentence for British teenager guilty of anti-gay murder
A teenager was sentenced to life imprisonment today for murdering a gay council officer in a homophobic attack.
David Meehan, 19, admitted to murdering James Kerr, 51, in South Inch public park and leaving him for dead while he and his accomplices went to a party.
According to Meehan, the three walked past James Kerr on their way back from the party but ignored their victim, who was still breathing.
Martin Soutar, 21, pled guilty to a charge of culpable homicide and was sentenced to nine years.
The third youth, a 15-year-old who initiated the anti-Queer murder after phoning his friends, will be sentenced tomorrow.
James Kerr was found badly injured by a woman walking her dog in the park early on Sunday, April 22, 2007.
The Perth and Kinross Council employee, who was openly gay, had serious injuries after being repeatedly kicked in the head and was taken to Dundee's Ninewells Hospital where he died a few hours later.
[According to whose testimony?] Kerr started a conversation with the 15-year-old boy in the park, a known cruising area.
Later the boy phoned Meehan and Soutar and summoned them to the park, where they hunted down their victim.
Meehan, Soutar and the 15-year-old all admitted punching him on the face and knocking him to the ground.
Meehan and Soutar admitted kicking James Kerr numerous times on the head. Meehan admitted landing the blows which amounted to murder.
Soutar admitted committing culpable homicide and stealing his victim's lighter and a set of keys as James Kerr lay on the ground.
According to The Herald, a judge told them at the High Court in Edinburgh: "This was a killing of a callous and brutal character which appears to have been marked by a homophobic element."
[more research: was James Kerr "coming on to" the 15-year-old? Is that legal in Britain? note: if it isn't and he was, death sentence is still overkill; if it is legal, if 15 is age of consent in Britain, then their responses were nothing but a (probably booze and) bias-incited, easily solved, cold-hearted murder by three males convinced that they are not kicking the life out of a human being. what the hell does this mean? "... appears to have been marked by a homophobic element."]
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