An Iranian homosexual teenager fears death

I guess you would listen to news and noticed international public outcry about Mehdi Kazemi, 19, and Pegah Emambakhsh, 40, two Iranian homosexuals which their requests for asylum in Britain were denied although they will will face harsh physical punishment, prison, and possible execution if forced to return Iran.

Their partners were sentenced to death by Iranian judiciary system and they fear for their lives. It seems that authorities in Iran had already been to his parents' house with a warrant for his arrest.

Unfortunately a British judge denied Kazemi's request for asylum in 2006 on the grounds that "Iran does not systematically persecute homosexuals", which is totally wrong. Everyone in Iran knows that sodomy is a deviant act and according to Islamic law is punishable to death.

I am not sure that Iran Judiciary system does have any law against homosexuality but I am sure in courts, judge is free to use Judiciary laws or Islamic laws based on Quran and Hadiths. Specially when there is absence of related law, Judges can use Islamic laws based on Quran, Hadith and etc. from Islamic sources.

If I may say so, in this case, Islam prohibits sodomy. As one hadith explains, "Allah will not look at the man who commits sodomy", in strict pro-Islamic Iranian courts they interpret this statement and alike and condemn homosexuality strongly and in the Islamic court of law, it's punishable with no doubt.