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Save Kiana Firouz

by Dan Savage • May 13, 2010 at 2:51 pm

The British government has rejected an appeal for asylum from an Iranian gay activist who starred in a film about gay life in Iran. If Kiana Firouz is deported—and she could be at any moment—she faces almost certain execution at the hands of the raving religious fanatics who rule/terrorize the Iranian people. Read this please.

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