Sussex MPs have faced calls to step in and try to prevent the reportedly imminent execution of 128 LGBT activists in Iraq.

Ben Duncan, Green Party councilor for Queens Park, Brighton, says:
“Executing LGBT people is hardly the behaviour of an inclusive democracy: is this what British troops have been fighting for?

“Living in Kemp Town, it’s easy to forget how something as natural as falling in love is still a capital offence in countries around the world.

“In more than a third of all nations homosexual behaviour is punishable by imprisonment, torture or even execution.

“Sussex MPs simply must champion tolerance and human rights by insisting the British Government steps in to prevent these state-sanctioned murders.”

The requests comes after the Iraqi LGBT group reported that people were being executed for being gay.

They also claim that since December 2008 the government has a 'mass campaign to eliminate homosexuality'.

Mr Duncan added:
“We don’t know how many of these LGBT activists are facing imminent execution - and how many are imprisoned – but it’s clearly the job of our MPs to find out, and step in. I hope they do.”

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