UN: Iran’s use of electric shocks on LGBT children is torture

LGBT+ people in Iran face the death penalty or lashings for same-sex intercourse. (Photo: Bill Tompkins/Getty Images)

A United Nations report found the Islamic Republic of Iran imposed electric shock torture on LGBT+ children, among other human rights violations.

British LGBT+ campaigner Peter Tatchell told The Jerusalem Post that the regime’s “abuses echo anti-LGBT+ medical treatments by…