Help Save Mehdi Kazemi

A gay Iranian faces deportation back to Iran, even though he may be executed:

There's now a website in support of Mehdi Kazemi (previous news reports have spelled his first name Mehdi), the Iranian teen who was just ordered sent back to the UK from The Netherlands and now faces possible deportation from Britain back to Iran even though he may be executed if he returns.

Kazemi's request for asylum in the UK was turned down in 2006 after British authorities determined that Iran is a country that does not systematically persecute gays. But that's because Iran does not recognize homosexuality.

Instead, they trump up false charges on gay teens and then execute them.


Go to Towleroad, read, and then do something.

via Towleroad