April 12
PAKISTAN----executions
2 murder convicts hanged
A murder convict was hanged at the Faisalabad Central Jail on Tuesday. A
spokesperson for the Prisons Department said Adeel Shahzad, a resident of Raza
Abad, had killed his aunt Zahida Naseem and her 3 children on February 18,
2001, in a Pir Mehal police precinct. ATC Judge Raja Akhtar had issued black
warrants for Shehzad. Muhammad Ashraf, alias Achoo, who had killed a man in
2000, was hanged in Sahiwal District Jail on Tuesday.
(source: Express Tribune)
FRANCE/IRAN:
Air France's gay flight attendants protest Iran route, cite death penalty
A gay flight attendant working for Air France launched an online petition
against homosexual staff being forced to fly to Iran. It comes after female
cabin crew members refused to fly on the route because they didn't want to be
forced to wear headscarves.
"Sure, our sexuality isn't written on our passports and it doesn't change the
way we work as a crew," the flight attendant, identified only as 'Laurent M,'
wrote in an open letter to the French government and Air France CEO Frederic
Gagey.
"But it is inconceivable to force someone to go to a country where his kind are
condemned for who they are," he continued.
The online appeal, titled 'Gay stewards from Air France don't want to fly to
the death penalty in Iran', points out that homosexuality is punishable by
death for adults in Iran. It also notes that gay minors face a punishment of 74
lashes in the Islamic Republic.
The petition has so far received over 2,000 signatures.
It comes just 1 week after Air France flight attendants and female pilots
refused to fly the Paris to Tehran route because they didn't want to be forced
to wear headscarves and loose trousers.
2 organizations representing the female cabin crew, the SNPNC and Unsa PNC,
said that forcing women to fly to Tehran would have been "an attack on freedom
of conscience and individual freedoms," as well as the "freedom of women."
The female staff members eventually achieved victory, with the airline
accepting that they could refuse to work on the route without facing
punishment. Air France suspended flights to Tehran in 2008, but is resuming the
route next week after international sanctions against Tehran over its nuclear
program were lifted.
(source: rt.com)
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