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Iran's solution for gays: under the direction of ultraconservative president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the Islamic Republic of Iran, gays and lesbians are being tortured and executed like never before.(RELIGION)

Publication: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)

Publication Date: 23-MAY-06

Author: Ireland, Doug
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After his arrest for homosexual activity, 22-year-old gay Iranian Amir says he was taken to the police station and asked to sit in a metal chair in the middle of a room. "The police put a gas flame under the chair and made me sit on it as the metal seat got hotter and hotter," he recalls. "The commander said to take a bottle and shove it up my ass while screaming, 'This will teach you not to want any more cock.'"

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