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  • Iranian LGBTs flee persecution via ‘underground railroad’

    May 17, 2013 13:41

    Iranian LGBTs flee persecution via ‘underground railroad’

    Global Post By Marie Doezema KAYSERI, Turkey — It’s a humid summer night in Kayseri. Several busloads of Iranians trundle through the dusk. Grandparents, toddlers, thirty-somethings and gangly teenage couples stand in the aisles, sit on laps. All are refugees. The [...]

     
  • IRQR’s Board of Directors is Seeking New Board Members

    May 10, 2013 17:46

    IRQR’s Board of Directors is Seeking New Board Members

    The Iranian Railroad for Queer Refugees (IRQR) exists to support Iranian LGBT/queer people who have fled Iran to escape persecution based on their sexual orientation, gender identity or expression (as homosexuality is a crime punishable by corporal punishment and even [...]

     
  • Omid, Iranian Homosexual. Recognized.

    May 3, 2013 18:46

    Omid, Iranian Homosexual. Recognized.

    Omid is an Iranian queer who left Iran to Turkey on the basis of his sexual orientation. IRQR began working on his case from March 2013. He has been granted refugee status by the office of the United Nations High [...]

     
  • Keytash, Iranian Homosexual. Recognized.

    May 3, 2013 18:42

    Keytash, Iranian Homosexual. Recognized.

    Keytash is an Iranian queer who left Iran to Turkey on the basis of his sexual orientation. IRQR began working on his case from March 2013. He has been granted refugee status by the office of the United Nations High [...]

     
  • Mehrdad, Iranian Gay Granted Protection.

    Apr 24, 2013 15:22

    Mehrdad, Iranian Gay Granted Protection.

    Mehrdad is an Iranian gay who left Iran to Canada on the basis of his sexual orientation. IRQR began working on his case from March 2013. He has been granted refugee status by the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada [...]

     
  • Hossein, Iranian Homosexual. Recognized.

    Apr 24, 2013 13:57

    Hossein, Iranian Homosexual. Recognized.

    Hossein is an Iranian queer who left Iran to Turkey on the basis of his sexual orientation. IRQR began working on his case from March 2012. He has been granted refugee status by the office of the United Nations High [...]

     
 

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