Gay Iranian Woman seeks asylum in the UK

international | rights, freedoms and repression | other press Friday August 24, 2007 01:56 by Anthony

Pegah Emambakhsh, an Iranian lesbian is to be deported from the UK back to Iran on Tuesday 28th August where under Iranian law, she will face imprisonment, whipping and death by stoning.

The full story with more details about the barbaric persecution of gay people in Iran is available at the following Indymedia UK article (originally copied and pasted here by 'flic').