Dear Friends, I send you a link to an online petition. It condemns the excecution last weekof two Iranian boys (Mahmoud Asgari aged 16, and Ayaz Marhoni, 18 years old) because of their homosexual relationship. Attached is a picture of the boys, minutes before they were excecuted. Officially they have been convicted for the rape of a 13 year old boy. But human rights organisations believe this accusation has been made up, in order to prevent public sympathy for the boys. The 13-year old 'victim' was never found, and the rape hasn't been proven. Human rights groups claim the government of Iran excecuted more than 4000 gays and lesbians over the past 25 years. That's more than one person every 3 days. This must be stopped. Please sign the form, and forward this message to as many people as possible. It's easy to be sarcastic and and say it isn't going to help. But not doing anything CERTAINLY isn't going to make a difference. Here's the link: www.petitiononline.com/1021ir/petition.html Thanks for your help. The Gayteens Executions in Iran Petition to Western political leaders was created by and written by Chairman of the Board COC Frank van Dalen ([email protected]).
