In early 2022, Iran has executed two gay men who were convicted on charges of sodomy and spent six years on death row, a rights group reported. 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 by the Human Rights Activists News Agency, the two men were identified as Mehrdad Karimpour and Farid Mohammadi.




