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(English)   Iranian Woman flogged as punishment for her
lesbianism Lesbians in Iran: Stories of Persecution and Torture
The Iranian Railroad for Queer Refugees (IRQR) documented cases
of Iranian lesbians being forced into marriage, persecuted,
become victims of extortion, "persuaded" to undergo hormone
treatment and/or sex reassignment procedure, take unnecessary
medication for serious mental disorders, raped and tortured.
Iranian lesbians, like their gay brothers, are not allowed to
have an existence in Iran. Many are forced by society and by
their family to live a lie and marry a man. Women convicted of
lesbian sex face flogging or, after conviction for a fourth
time, the death penalty. Lesbians have no security of person
vis-à-vis the government. Each time they are arrested, they risk
being raped, whipped, persecuted or even t