PARIS: A court in Iran has sentenced to death two gay rights activists on charges of promoting homosexuality, campaigners said on Monday, urging pressure from the international community to stop the implementation of the verdicts.

The two women, Zahra Sedighi Hamedani, 31, and Elham Chubdar, 24, were sentenced to death by the court in the northwestern town of Urmia, the Hengaw Kurdish rights organisation said.

Published in Dawn, September 6th, 2022