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Iran: Murder of lgbtq+ man highlights dangers of state-sanctioned abuses against LGBTI people
The horrifying murder of a 20-year-old queer man in Iran has shed brand-new light on how the criminalization of consensual same-sex sexual conduct and gender non-conformity perpetuates systemic violence and discrimination against lesbian, lgbtq+, bisexual, transgender and intersex people (LGBTI).
Amnesty International released a a detailed analysis issued to mark the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Intersex-phobia and Transphobia highlighting the injustice of the man’s death. His murder also highlights the urgent ask for for the Iranian authorities to enact and implement laws to protect the human rights of LGBTI people.
Friends of Alireza Fazeli Monfared, who identified as a genderfluid gay man, told Amnesty International that he was abducted by several male relatives in his hometown of Ahvaz, Khuzestan province, on 4 May 2021. The next daytime the relatives informed his mother that they had killed him and dumped his body under a tree. Authorities confirmed that Alireza Fazeli Monfared’s throat was slit and announced investigations, but none of the suspected perpetrators hold bee
The gay people pushed to change their gender
"The doctor told me that with the surgery he could change the 2% male features in me to female features, but he could not change the 98% female features to be male," she says.
After that, she thought she needed to change her gender.
Hormone therapy seemed to bring positive changes. She grew breasts, and her body hair thinned. "It made me feel good," she says. "I felt beautiful. I felt more attractive to the kinds of partners I used to have."
But then she had the operation - and came away feeling "physically damaged".
She had a brief marriage to a gentleman but it broke down, and any hope she had that life would be better as a woman was short-lived.
"Before the surgery people who saw me would say, 'He's so girly, he's so feminine,'" Marie says.
"After the operation whenever I wanted to feel like a woman, or perform like a miss, everybody would tell, 'She looks appreciate a man, she's manly.' It did not help decrease my problems. On the contrary, it increased my problems...
"I think now if I were in a free community, I wonder if I would own been like
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Iran criminalizes lgbtq+ sexual relations with a maximum penalty of death. Iran allows transgender people who have undergone gender-affirming surgery to change their legal gender markers, but transgender Iranians are still subject to violence, discrimination, social rejection, and harassment. Iran has strict censorship laws that are used to ban LGBTIQ-related media and communications. The UN’s Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Islamic Republic of Iran reported in March 2025 that Homosexual people are subjected to “discriminatory public statements by officials, at the utmost levels.” During protests that were sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini in 2022, many LGBTIQ people also joined calls demanding rights and freedoms. Although this caused a political backlash, it also strengthened the visibility of LGBTIQ movements in Iran. The fact-finding mission also found that LGBTQ+ people arrested in the context of the protest were subjected to “dehumanising insults, threats and treatment amounting to torture” and that these violations may constitute gender persecution.
*Outright investigate indicates bodily autonomy of intersex people is not respected an Police in Iran enter a young man's apartment looking for signs of "misconduct." They rummage through his laundry and verify his computer. The young man, who goes by the name of Sahand, stands accused of violating the laws of the Islamic Republic — a relative reported him to police after finding him in bed with another man. "It was terrible," Sahand told DW. "Right after they found us my father was there screaming at me and telling me I ruined his life. He wanted nothing more to do with me and never wanted to see me again. The police came a while later. My mom then called my sister, who I had earlier confided in." Sahand later found out from his sister that it was a relative who had betrayed him. After his apartment and his life were turned upside down, it became perfectly distinct to him that he had to flee Iran. While studying abroad, he had the opportunity to travel to Europe, where he applied for asylum. He has been living in Germany for a year now and hopes his asylum application will be approved. According to the latest report by Ahmed Shaheed, the United Nations Special RappThe difficulties of being gay in Iran
UN report on persecution of sexual minorities