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Contents:
- GAY MAN 'HUNTED' BY QATAR POLICE AND GANG-RAPED HOTEL ROOM AHEAD OF WORLD CUP
- 13 UNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS LEGALLY PUNISHABLE BY ATH
- GAY LIFE QATAR
- THE 6 COUNTRI EXECUTE PEOPLE FOR BEG GAY
- HERE ARE THE 11 UNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS PUNISHABLE BY ATH
- RIGHTS GROUP: IRAN EXECUT 2 GAY MEN OVER SODOMY CHARG
- GAY QATAR NEWS & REPORTS
GAY MAN 'HUNTED' BY QATAR POLICE AND GANG-RAPED HOTEL ROOM AHEAD OF WORLD CUP
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The World Cup will start jt two weeks' time, spe grave ncerns over Qatar's rerd on human rights, wh the Middle East untry ntug to persecute the LGBT+ munyA gay man has claimed he was hunted by police ahead of the upg World CupA gay man who has prevly livg Qatar has claimed he was 'hunted' by the untry's police force before beg gang-raped a hotel room. One of the biggt ncerns about the Middle East untry is s laws which outlaw homosexualy, wh LGBT+ people the untry at risk of imprisonment or even the ath penalty. One gay man om the Philipp who worked Qatar as an office assistant, has told how he was lured to a hotel and gang-raped by police.
The man, 'Ali', told the i that he received a msage on a gay datg app om a man claimg to be a Turkish worker. The police officers then searched his bag, accg him of beg a prostute, before another gay man arrived after also beg lured to a hotel. Acrdg to the report, several other gay men have claimed they were 'hunted' the same way by Qatar's police force.
The ty natn of Bnei recently ed ternatnal outrage when enacted dranian laws makg gay sex a pal crime.
13 UNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS LEGALLY PUNISHABLE BY ATH
DUBAI, Uned Arab Emirat (AP) — Iran has executed two gay men who were nvicted on charg of sodomy and spent six years on ath row, a rights group reported. * gay execution qatar *
After several weeks of fierce nmnatn by world lears, the sultanate announced wouldn’t enforce the ath penalty for people engagg homosexual acts.
Whether Bnei will keep s word remas to be seen, but the small untry on the island of Borneo near Malaysia is not the only natn where gay men and women are beg sentence for the crime of beg gay some untri is rooted the terpretatn of Sharia law, acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn’s (ILGA) report on state-sponsored, which means “path, ” is not so much a legal system as a gui for helpg people fd life’s answers through Islam, as people unrstand acrdg to tradnal and early terpretatns. D., after the ath of the Prophet ath penalty for gay acts is rived om people’s terpretatns of the Quran, Islam’s holy book, and the Hadh, or the acunts of the saygs of the Prophet Muhammad.
The acunts differ on the method of killg, and other acunts suggt lser penalti for homosexual acts, pendg on the circumstanc. An creasg number of Islamic scholars are re-examg what the two guis are teachg about same-sex Islamic untri mete out the ath penalty for crim other than homosexualy. On a more posive note, the are the untri where same sex marriage is officially intify the untri where beg gay is still legally punishable by ath, 24/7 Tempo reviewed var reports on human rights and homophobia by non-prof anizatns providg help and legal advice to mori, cludg members of the LGBTQ muny across the world.
GAY LIFE QATAR
YemenIn Yemen, the law stat that unmarried gay men will be punished wh 100 whip lash or one year prison, but married gay men face ath by stong. Gay women are to be imprisoned for up to three January 2019 a man Iran was hanged after beg found guilty of havg sex wh another man.
Homosexualy was ma a crime punishable by the ath penalty 1979 after the Islamic Revolutn. In 2007, then-Print of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadejad famoly said durg a vis to Columbia Universy: "In Iran, we don't have homosexuals, like your untry. Two of the most shockg measur were punishg thiev by amputatn and makg homosexual acts and adultery pal crim.
THE 6 COUNTRI EXECUTE PEOPLE FOR BEG GAY
MraniaHomosexualy has always been illegal Mrania, the 11th largt untry Ai by area. Not only did ban gay marriage, but also banned the registratn of gay clubs, societi and other anizatns supportg the LGBT muny.
While this law is applied across the entire untry, 12 northern stat have their own laws, punishg gay men and women wh ath by stong. Honor killgs, where relativ kill the gay man or woman to rtore the fay's honor, are not unheard of. The punishment for other gay activi, fed as "acts of lt, " is also imprisonment but between two months and two years.
In 2012, a newly adopted provisnal nstutn ma Somalia's terpretatn of Sharia law "the supreme law of the untry, " makg homosexualy a crime that n be punished by floggg or the ath penalty.
HERE ARE THE 11 UNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS PUNISHABLE BY ATH
The Penal Co is not explicly clear about homosexualy beg a pal crime or not. The legal lgo n be terpreted as makg all male homosexual terurse a pal crime but n also mean that 's only for forced male homosexual terurse. There is no rerd to date of nsensual homosexual acts beg punished by anythg but jail terms of differg lengths and f.
The untry's Penal Co stat that "rnal terurse agast the orr of nature" — which n mean homosexualy, even though 's not explicly mentned — is punishable by a fe and/or imprisonment om two years to life. Namely: The World Cup is beg held a untry where people n be imprisoned or executed for beg gay. Here’s what the report says, and reflects what gay Qatari Nasser Mohamed wrote for Outsports earlier this year.
He spoke openly about the importance of exprsg disapproval to any child who hts about homosexualy. In an terview wh German work ZDF, former Qatari soccer player and current World Cup ambassador Khalid Salman clared that beg gay is “haram” (a vlatn of Islamic law).
RIGHTS GROUP: IRAN EXECUT 2 GAY MEN OVER SODOMY CHARG
“The mere fact that beg gay, or lbian, or trans is illegal Qatar and will open you up for prosecutn means is not a safe place for LGBT+ people to travel to and the ernment advice should clearly say that, ” said Andrew Boff, puty chair of the London Assembly and a leadg Conservative gay-rights mpaigner, acrdg to the BBC.
GAY QATAR NEWS & REPORTS
Much like other small Gulf Stat the Arabian pensula fdg recent and -pth stori about gay life is not easy. The biggt public kerfluffle about homosexualy Qatar recent years has not ncerned any gay executns, wch hunts, persecutn or mands for gay marriage. Completely overlookg the social impact of such a huge ternatnal event such a ty Islamic place as Qatar FIFA got self to hot water om human rights anizatns as well as gay rights associatns.