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Respect & gratitude ✊️
A map of the United States with the name Minneapolis written across it, signaling solidarity with the shut down today
January 23, 2026 at 4:40 PM
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My org @immcouncil.org represents those two gay men. They had been arrested on charges of sodomy by Iranian moral police, and fled the country seeking asylum. They face the death penalty if returned, yet the Trump admin denied their asylum claims in a kangaroo court process.

They are terrified.
Two Iranian men, who are gay, told their lawyer Bekah Wolf with the American Immigration Council that they were set to be deported on the Sunday flight. Homosexuality is illegal and punishable by death in Iran, which executed two gay men in 2022 and is considered one of the world's most repressive countries for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. "They're terrified," Wolf told MS NOW. One of her clients "calls every 45 minutes begging me to save his life." "We need a court of some sort to fully hear their claims before they're sent back to a country where being gay is punishable by death," said Wolf. She said her two clients have no criminal convictions and entered the U.S. in early 2025 on asylum claims. Both were in the middle of appeals though did not have stays of removal, Wolf said. Ultimately, Wolf said, "they did not have full hearings of their asylum claims in any meaningful way."
January 23, 2026 at 1:26 PM