Iran, Yemen among untri where beg gay is punishable by ath

Contents:

• GAY MAN 'HUNTED' BY QATAR POLICE AND GANG-RAPED HOTEL ROOM AHEAD OF WORLD CUP
• GAY LIFE QATAR
• 13 UNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS LEGALLY PUNISHABLE BY ATH

GAY MAN 'HUNTED' BY QATAR POLICE AND GANG-RAPED HOTEL ROOM AHEAD OF WORLD CUP

What do Qatar's law say about homosexualy?Qatari law lls for a prison sentence of one to three years for "ducg or scg a male or a female any way to m illegal or immoral actns".It also lls for the same punishment for whoever is "stigatg" or "scg" a male to "m sodomy".

GAY LIFE QATAR

Click to subscribe to the Sky News Daily wherever you get your podstsWhat else has recently been said about the Gulf state's stance on homosexualy?Former Qatari footballer Khalid Salman - an ambassador for the World Cup - scribed homosexualy as "damage the md".Ahead of the tournament, he told German public broadster ZDF's news programme Hte Journal that beg gay is "haram" - or forbidn Arabic.Mr Salman also said homosexualy "is spirual harm".Foreign Secretary Jam Cleverly faced strong cricism the UK for tellg gay fans who vis Qatar to not stage any protts.He said overseas travellers should "rpect the laws of their host untry" - but was acced of handg gay fans travellg to Qatar a "slap the face".In a further terview wh Sky News, Mr Cleverly said: "The are Mlim untri, they have a very different cultural startg pot [om] ."I thk 's important, when you're a visor to a untry, that you rpect the culture of your host natn."His ments provoked fierce cricism, wh the mister beg acced of beg "shockgly tone-af".Read more:England make wng start to World Cup mpaignEngland open World Cup by takg the kneeMeanwhile, there was "ntempt" exprsed for FIFA after plans by England and Wal to wear anti-discrimatn armbands were dropped unr threat of sportg sanctn.In a statement, the Football Supporters' Associatn said: "Today we feel betrayed. Qatari law crimaliz sex outsi marriage, cludg gay sex. In the terpretatn of Sharia law that Qatar follows, sex outsi of marriage, cludg homosexualy, is punishable by jail time and, as a maximum sentence, ath by stong, though there isn’t available evince that such a punishment has ever been ed.

Nasser Mohamed, a gay Qatari livg exile the US, explaed to Vox. Mohamed left Qatar his 20s for medil school “wh the tentn of never g back” bee of the limed life he led as a gay man there. Though there are small pockets of LGBTQ people Qatar, there’s not a gay scene, Mohamed said.

13 UNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS LEGALLY PUNISHABLE BY ATH

“If you’re an expat, you’re able to live your life like you want, ” a gay Arab man livg Doha told Rters.

I know gay men workers’ mps wouldn’t be able to live the same way.