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According to Javno.com, he is a reporter, songwriter, fisherman and former intelligence officer and seminarian. “I came out of the closet exclusively as rebellion and (in] solidarity with those who were discriminât- ' ASIA/PACIFIC ed against and humiliated, and I state that with Man Hanged in Iran for Anal Rape' pride everywhere 1 go," he told Javno. “My goal in politics is to, by coming out of the closet, have the A 21-year-old man was hanged in Iran’s sexual orientation of people become a completely Kermanshah Central Prison on “anal rape” (ighah) charges Dec. 5 despite a November order from the irrelevant issue." nation’s chief justice, Ayatollah Syed Mahmoud AMERICAS Hashemi Shahroudi, that stayed the execution and Uruguay Passes Civil Union Law sent the case for a retrial. Uruguay’s House of Representatives passed a civ- ! Shahroudi had determined that Makvan il union law for gay and straight couples Nov. 29. Moukxxlzadeh’s sentence violated Islamic teaching, The measure had passed the Senate in decrees of senior Shiite clerics and Iranian law, after September. It is expected to become law before MoukxxJzadeh’s lawyer argued that there was no year’s end. evidence of the alleged crimes and that several Uruguay will be the first Latin American coun elements of rhe case violated proper procedure. try to grant same-sex couples access to civil unions Shahroudi’s retrial order, however, required on the national level. Couples must live together review and assent from the Special Supervision for five years before they can take advantage of the Bureau of the Iranian Justice Department. law. Spousal rights will be granted in areas such as According to the International Gay and Lesbian health care, pensions, parenting and inheritance. Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC), the Other Latin American localities with civil bureau declined to assent, upheld the sentence and union laws include the city of Buenos Aires, rhe ordered the execution to be carried out. Argentine province of Rio Negro, the Brazilian Mouloodzadeh was convicted in June of com state of Rio Grande do Sul, Mexico City and the mitting sodomitic rape when he was 13 years old Mexican state of Coahuila, which borders Texas. despite the fact that, at his trial, his three accusers recanted their accusations, saying they had lied Brazilian TV Network under duress. Mouloodzadeh likewise said his con to Pay $42M for Outing Model fession to the crimes had been coerced. A Sao Paulo court has ordered the Brazilian “This is a shameful and outrageous travesty of network Rede TV to pay $42.7 million to model justice,” IGLHRC executive director Paula Carlos Alberto Cunha Goncalves after he was Ettelbrick said after rhe hanging. “How many more young Iranians have to die before the internation al community takes action?” Meanwhile, in an e-mail circulated the day before the execution, Scott Long, director of Human Rights Watch’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights Program, suggested that press releases and news articles reporting on Shahroudi’s preliminary stay of MoukxxJzadeh’s death sentence could, in fact, speed up the execution. Although Ling’s e-mail did not name IGLHRC, it seemingly referred, in part, to a Nov. 14 press release titled, “Execution in Iran Halted: IGLHRC Cites Global Protest as Central.” The press release
