Amnesty International Australia
Defending Human Rights
Content warning: details of the murder of a non-binary gay man. Earlier this month Alireza Fazeli Monfared, who self-identified as a non-binary gay man, was brutally murdered in his hometown in Iran. His killers are yet to face justice – and under Iran’s justice system, are unlikely to. Alireza was murdered on 4 May in …
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In the first six months of 2018, 100 hate crimes have allegedly been committed against people from marginalised groups, said Amnesty International India, as it released data recorded on its interactive website, ‘Halt the Hate’. The term ‘hate crime’ is applied to criminal acts against people based on their real or perceived membership of a …
