And reports of such crimes appear to be on the rise: At least 27 trans people were killed last year, almost all trans women of color, according to the LGBT advocacy group GLAAD. During the first two months of 2017, at least seven trans women of color met the same fate. (The bureau didn't specify how many of these were murders or how many targeted trans women of color specifically the state level have also opted, for budgetary reasons, not to collect data on hate crimes against trans

relations are explicitly banned in 72 countries, according to the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans

Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Iran’s Islamic Republic has had a theocratic form of governance, in Iran’s Islamic Republic has severely restricted social and political freedoms, especially for women. Her death resulted in a massive protests in Iran and around the world. Under Iran’s penal code, homosexuality is punishable by death. Pezeshkian promised  to make Iran more prosperous, open, and engaged with the West.

Shia Islam is the dominant faith in Iran. Baha’is are Iran’s most significant non-Muslim religious minority. Protests against the regime have since erupted throughout Iran. of Iran’s population. Iran's laws encourage state and societal violence against them.

Iran's national flag flies in the capital, Tehran [File: Vahid Salemi/AP] The strategy is not a novelty The data associated with the death penalty in Iran uncovers that minorities are being disproportionately

By Michał Jagielski Protesters hold up a placard reading "Stop Execution in Iran" as they take part in Iran executed four Kurds by hanging on Jan. 29, 2024, having found them guilty of charges of collaborating Photograph: AFP The Kurds, along with other ethnic minorities in Iran, have been suffering from systemic When all of Iran’s actions are taken into account, it is clear that its objective is to “menace the existence In this light, Iran’s campaign against the Kurds can be understood as a form of cultural genocide, a

Berlin, whose Senate administration oversees immigration enforcement — are set to take effect in less than The protests in question include a mass sit-in at the Berlin central train station, a road blockade, Longbottom, who is trans, lives in Berlin with their partner, an Italian citizen. “As a trans person, the idea of going back to the U.S. right now feels really scary.” Wlaszczyk, who is also trans, hasn’t lived in Poland since the age of ten.

Alert for Genocide: USA Jan 20, 2025 Today was a hard day for many people, especially immigrants and trans Socialist movement in Germany saw Jews as its principal and cosmic enemy, although Jews constituted less than a host of other groups for sterilization, torture, murder, and ‘partial’ elimination, such as gays, trans Trans people, refugees, and migrants are not the threats.

By Stuart Williams Inmates detained inside one of Iran's largest prisons have for the last two days staged Commons The protest at Ghezel Hesar prison in the city of Karaj outside Tehran was triggered by the transfer of up to 16 inmates to solitary confinement ahead of execution, the Norway-based Iran Human Rights ( which is outlawed by Iran, said that 1,500 prisoners were involved in the action. IHR said that two of the prisoners transferred to solitary confinement had been returned to the general

Despite the communications blockade, a recurring image has made its way out of Iran: rows and rows of The state broadcaster said the images show the danger that protests pose to Iran’s society: “There are Those who still support Iran’s theocratic government and those in the streets calling for its downfall normally use to verify information but say they have counted more than 500 dead. On Monday, fewer videos of the unrest appeared than in previous days.

One of the boys was asking me to take off my clothes but I begged: ‘It’s better if you just kill me than More than 4,000 civilians have been killed and at least 712,000 displaced within and outside the country

actually Parviz Sabeti, the alleged head of secret police and chief torturer of the former Shah of Iran ” by one of his daughters in a February 2023 tweet showing him at a rally in Los Angeles denouncing Iran The Sabetis, who according to leaked state department documents were able to transfer a sizable sum of “The roots of the brutal policies being carried out today by the Islamic Republic of Iran are connected [The case] should stand as a rejection of a future Iran that re-establishes Savak, or seeks to provide