Posted AT 9:32 PM EST on 05/10/07
A gay Iranian in exile
A week after Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's notorious appearance in the United States, I met an Iranian named Arsham Parsi. He is a slender, intense man of 27. He wanted me to see some photographs of two young men he knew back in Iran. Their backs are flayed – an angry mass of red stripes that runs from their shoulders down past their waists. “They were flogged for going to a party,” he told me over coffee.
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