IRAQI GAYS SENTENCED TO DEATH FACE EXECUTION

more than 100 prisoners in Iraq are facing execution, many believed to have been convicted of the ‘crime’ of being gay, the UK-based Iraqi-LGBT group revealed. According to Ali Hili of Iraqi-LGBT, the Iraqi authorities plan to start executing them in batches of 20. There is, said Mr. Hili, at least one member of Iraqi-LGBT who are among those to be put to death. “We have information and reports on members of our community who have been arrested and are waiting for execution for the crime of homosexuality,” Mr Hili said.