President Ahmadinejad, who is visiting the U.S. to attend the United Nations General Assembly Session, was invited to speak at Columbia University as a guest of its World Leaders Forum. In response to a question from an audience member concerning Iran’s documented abuse of homosexuals and women, Ahmadinejad replied, "In Iran, we don’t have homosexuals like in your country." During the same speech, Ahmadinejad was confronted with Amnesty International figures suggesting that Iran had executed 200 people this year, including people labeled as homosexuals. Ahmadinejad said, "Don’t you have capital punishment in the United States? You do too. In Iran there is capital punishment."