James
05-10-2005, 11:14 AM
Celebrities Join London Protest Against Iran Gay Executions and Torture
LONDON, October 4 – TV soap and film actor Jeremy Sheffield, gay rap star Q Boy, comedian Scott Cappurro, Big Brother contestant Josh Rafter, out gay Labour MP Chris Bryant and human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell today joined a 50-strong protest outside the Iranian Embassy in London.
The protest – organised by the gay magazine axm and gay human rights group OutRage! – was part of an on-going series of global demonstrations against the Iranian government’s arrest, imprisonment, whipping and execution of gay men.
“We are here to condemn Iran’s execution and torture of gay men, and to demand international action against the tyrannical Iranian regime” said protest co-organiser Peter Tatchell of the LGBT human rights group OutRage!.....
Full article here (http://www.ukgaynews.org.uk/Archive/2005oct/0401.htm)
LONDON, October 4 – TV soap and film actor Jeremy Sheffield, gay rap star Q Boy, comedian Scott Cappurro, Big Brother contestant Josh Rafter, out gay Labour MP Chris Bryant and human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell today joined a 50-strong protest outside the Iranian Embassy in London.
The protest – organised by the gay magazine axm and gay human rights group OutRage! – was part of an on-going series of global demonstrations against the Iranian government’s arrest, imprisonment, whipping and execution of gay men.
“We are here to condemn Iran’s execution and torture of gay men, and to demand international action against the tyrannical Iranian regime” said protest co-organiser Peter Tatchell of the LGBT human rights group OutRage!.....
Full article here (http://www.ukgaynews.org.uk/Archive/2005oct/0401.htm)