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Over 100 on Iran Embassy demo...

pirate | 11.08.2005 16:19 | Gender | Repression | Social Struggles | South Coast | World

OutRage! led demo at the Iranian Embassy- 11 Aug.



Over 100 LGBT people attended the OutRage! and Peter Tatchell led demo outside the Iranian Embassy in London this pm. (one of 5 such demos around the world). The protest(s) were over the recent (19 July) execution of two gay teenagers and the general dire human rights record of Iran.

People in attendance incl reps from the Labour LGBT groups, the SWP, The Workers Communist party of Iran, even some Iranian royalist. Several gay Iranian asylum seekers were also there. One, wearing a mask (for fear of being recognised) was stopped ans searched by the police under the Terrorism Act ! (typical plod over-reacting).
Many OutRage supporters also attended along with many ordinary LGBT people- some who had never been on a demo before.
Chants were hurled at the Embassy, including 'murderers', stop killing kids and queers, close the embassy down, Smash the Iranian fascist state and several others.

Demo was filmed by Sky News and covered by several newspapers.

Offical Press release from OutRage! & hoepfully pics will be issued asap- poss early tomorrow.


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Display the following 17 comments

  1. Count the anti-Iranian stories!!! — twilight
  2. twilight — moss
  3. Puppets ? — eidenk
  4. Outrage! are now shills for Iranian terrorists — B.I.G.
  5. Belief — Qwerty
  6. Qwerty — B.I.G.
  7. unconvinced — cynic
  8. Well done — J&P
  9. BIG Bollocks — Qwerty
  10. But homoseuality is an abomination forbiddon by God! — Concerned Christian
  11. Democracy — Terry
  12. Twisted Democracy — Qwerty
  13. Human rights — Olaf
  14. Reply to Terry — Leam
  15. Your point? — Alec
  16. Terry the T*** — georgie
  17. editors?! — concerned radical