Rights group: Iran executes 2 gay men over sodomy charges

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran has executed two gay men who were convicted on charges of sodomy and spent six years on death row. Homosexuality is illegal in Iran, considered one of the most repressive places in the world for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. According to a report on Sunday by the Human Rights Activists News Agency, the two men were sentenced to death for “forced sexual intercourse between two men” and hanged in a prison in the northwestern city of Maragheh. The same group says that last July, two other men were executed on the same charges in the same city.