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shenmue

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Sun Sep 11, 2022, 02:29 PM Sep 2022

Two gay women in Iran sentenced to death [View all]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-62821763



From the article:

"My biggest hope in life is to raise the rainbow flag in Iran and shout this fact that we exist."
So said Zahra Sadiqi Hamedani, also known as Sareh, talking to BBC Persian in May 2021.

Five months later she was arrested by Iran's revolutionary guard. Now she has been tried and sentenced to death, at the age of 31, along with another woman, Elham Choubdar, 24.”
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