An Iranian man was murdered in a vile homophobic attack mere days before he was due to join his partner in Turkey.
On May 4, Alireza was lured into a car by his brother, who told him their father wanted to speak with him.
An Iranian man was murdered in a vile homophobic attack mere days before he was due to join his partner in Turkey. Pic: Alireza Fazeli-Monfared/Twitter
The young man was driven to the village of Borumi, where he was murdered and beheaded by his relatives in a brutal ‘honour killing’.
Tragically, it has emerged that Alireza was killed days before he was due to leave Iran to live with his partner, Aghil Abyat, in Turkey.
Ali Fazeli Monfared, who lived in
Ahvaz, was reportedly killed after his relatives found out he had been exempted from serving in the military due to his sexual orientation,
Fazeli Monfared had applied for the status so that he could leave the country and go to
Turkey to live with his close friend,
Aghil Bayat,
But when he received his exemption card in the mail, one of his family members found it, according to 6Rang.
Several male relatives then allegedly took Fazeli Monfared to a rural village near Ahvaz and executed him on May 4, a 6Rang executive told NBC News.
Afterwards, the three killers allegedly called Alireza’s mother to tell them they had ‘finished him off. Alireza had applied for an exception from the compulsory Iranian military service for being gay so that he could leave the country and move to Turkey to live with his partner Aghil Abyat, according to 6Rang, the Iranian Lesbian and Transgender Network. But when the exception card arrived at his home in the city of Ahvaz, Alireza was not home and instead his half-brother is said to have discovered his sexual orientation after finding the card. At 7pm on Tuesday Alireza spoke to his mother on the phone for the last time, Abyat told IranWire.