Six members of an Islamist ant group were sentenced to ath on Tuday by a urt Banglash for the btal killg of two gay rights mpaigners five years ago.
Contents:
- 6 SENTENCED TO DEATH BANGLASH FOR KILLG OF GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST
- MILANTS GET A DEATH SENTENCE FOR KILLG A GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST WHO WORKED FOR USAID
- NO COUNTRY FOR BANGLASH’S GAY MEN
- BANGLASH SENTENC 6 ANTS TO ATH FOR KILLG GAY ACTIVISTS
- BANGLASH GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST IS HACKED TO DEATH
6 SENTENCED TO DEATH BANGLASH FOR KILLG OF GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST
LGBT Rights Banglash: homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more. * bangladesh gay rights *
Homosexualy⚢✖ Illegal (up to life prison as punishment)Censorship✔ No censorshipChangg Genr✔ Legal, surgery not requiredNon-bary genr regnn✔ RegnizedDiscrimatn✖ No protectnsEmployment Discrimatn✖ No protectnsHog Discrimatn✖ No protectnsConversn Therapy✖ Not banned. HistoryHomosexual activy Banglash? Homosexual activy Banglash is illegal (up to life prison as punishment).
MILANTS GET A DEATH SENTENCE FOR KILLG A GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST WHO WORKED FOR USAID
The activist Xulhaz Mannan, who had started a gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr magaze, was hacked to ath a machete attack 2016. * bangladesh gay rights *
Current statSce Oct 6, 1860Not legal Homosexualy is illegal Banglash, so same-sex relatnships are illegal as well.
As well homosexualy is currently illegal. Homosexualy is still currently age of nsent Banglash? N/A Homosexualy is illegal for mal and femal.
NO COUNTRY FOR BANGLASH’S GAY MEN
A Banglash anti-terrorism tribunal sentenced six Islamist ants to ath the btal slaygs of two men, cludg a proment gay rights activist, five years ago, lawyers said. * bangladesh gay rights *
Asia Pacific|6 Sentenced to Death Banglash for Killg of Gay Rights Activist ADVERTISEMENTThe activist Xulhaz Mannan, who had started a gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr magaze, was hacked to ath a machete attack Salahudd/NurPhoto, via Getty ImagDHAKA, Banglash — Six men said to belong to an Islamist ant group were nvicted and sentenced to ath on Tuday over the 2016 killgs of a proment Banglashi gay rights activist and his Xulhaz Mannan, an activist sometim referred to as Julhas Mannan, and his iend Mahbub Rabbi Tonoy were hacked to ath April 2016, was seen as yet another a seri of targeted attacks agast amics, secular wrers and activists who wrote views cril of Islam. Mannan’s killg was the first attack on a gay rights activist.
“They cid to slay the victims for their volvement gay rights’ activism, ” a special anterrorism tribunal Dhaka said on Tuday announcg the nvictns and sentenc. Four of the men are ctody, while two rema at large, cludg Syed Mohammad Zil Haque, a former major fired by the Banglashi Army, which acced him 2012 of volvement an attempted Mannan had tried to anize a march for gay and transgenr youths April 2016, but the police orred nceled after threats of vlence and fears uld e a relig backlash. The men rried parcels ntag machet that the police said were ed the openly gay man a nservative society where homosexual relatns rema outlawed, Mr.
BANGLASH SENTENC 6 ANTS TO ATH FOR KILLG GAY ACTIVISTS
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Mannan started a Banglashi gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr magaze, Roopbaan, 2014.
Xulhaz Mannan was the edor of Banglash’s first and only gay rights magaze, Roopban. “Today’s verdict do not change the fact that Banglash, where homophobia remas the norm, thoands of gay men live nstant fear and ostracizatn, ” Khalil said. Homosexualy is illegal Banglash, whose law allows life imprisonment for “unnatural terurse”.
BANGLASH GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST IS HACKED TO DEATH
Julhas Mannan, who had helped anize a march for gay and transgenr youths, was the victim of what the police believe to be the latt a wave of targeted killgs. * bangladesh gay rights *
Police rt spected Islamist ants acced of the slaygs of two men, cludg a proment gay rights activist, as they head to urt Dhaka, Banglash, on Tuday. DHAKA, Banglash — A Banglash anti-terrorism tribunal on Tuday sentenced six Islamist ants to ath the btal slaygs of two men, cludg a proment gay rights activist, five years ago, lawyers said. In April 2016, assailants hacked to ath Xulhaz Mannan, an edor of Banglash's first gay rights magaze who had worked for the U.
Embassy protol officer, was edor of the gay rights magaze Roopbaan as well as a of former Foreign Mister Dipu Moni of the erng Awami League party.
“Banglash’s ernment tried to e anti-Amerin sentiments to further the notn that Xulhaz was not Banglashi, and that beg gay is part of an iology that is a Wtern import, ” a -founr of Roopbaan said. A paraary force publicly intified them as homosexual. Meanwhile, the lg Awami League has started to align self wh homophobic, fundamentalist Hefazat-e-Islam.
The killg of two gay rights activists Banglash has driven s already secretive gay muny unrground, wonrg if they n tst a ernment that nsirs their stat to be crimal. * bangladesh gay rights *
Six members of an Islamist ant group were sentenced to ath on Tuday by a urt Banglash for the btal killg of two gay rights mpaigners five years ago. Xulhaz Mannan, 35, the edor of Banglash’s first magaze for gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer (LGBTQ+) people, and actor Mahbub Rabbi Tonoy, 25, were hacked to ath Mannan’s apartment the pal Dhaka April 2016 an attack claimed by Ansar Al Islam, the regnal arm of al Qaeda. At least after a long time, we get jtice, ” said Shahanur Islam, a gay rights mpaigner.
AdvertisementSKIP Asad/Agence France-Prse — Getty ImagApril 25, 2016DHAKA, Banglash — A Banglashi gay rights activist and his iend were hacked to ath Monday what the police believe is the latt a seri of targeted killgs by Islamist activist, Julhas Mannan, had attracted the attentn of extremist groups by helpg to anize a march for gay and transgenr youths that had been schled for the Bengali New Year on April 14. The Rabow Rally, as was lled, drew threats of vlence and police nceled the march, sayg the event would offend relig Mannan, who also eded Banglash’s only gay and transgenr magaze, Roopbaan, had received “very vic, murro threats” om anonymo people who opposed the rally, said Sara Hossa, a iend. Mannan about the threats he received, said she was certa he had been sgled out for his activism on gay the last two years, siar killgs have taken place, targetg tellectuals, secular wrers, members of relig mory groups and activists who had published views cril of Islam.
Associat scribed him as a “godfather” of the gay muny, and one of the few activists willg to intify himself openly the news media and onle. Mannan would celebrate the Islamic holy month of Ramadan by anizg tradnal eveng suppers for gay youths, one iend said.
Death sentenc for terrorists who killed gay rights activist Xulhaz Mannan five years ago have given the muny hope. But eper change is need, they say, begng wh a lonial-era law that crimalis homosexual acts. * bangladesh gay rights *
Homosexual acts are a crime unr Banglash’s penal . A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 5 of the New York edn wh the headle: Islamist Milants Spected Killg of Gay Rights Activist Banglash. NEW DELHI (AP) — The killg of two gay rights activists the Banglashi pal has driven the untry’s already secretive and small gay muny unrground, wonrg if they n tst a ernment that nsirs their stat to be crimal, rights groups tectiv say they are workg wh evince cludg a mobile phone, documents and wns ttimony to solve the se, which a gang of young men fatally stabbed a theater actor and the edor of Banglash’s only LGBT rights magaze, who also worked for the U.
That fear is pecially strong among members of Banglash’s largely closeted gay muny. “Beg gay is hard enough nservative societi. Nearly all of those killed are nsired soft targets: atheist bloggers, foreign aid workers, a universy profsor, and now gay rights all the attacks have been claimed by transnatnal Islamist extremist groups, cludg the so-lled Islamic State and var affiliat of ernment has dismissed the claims of rponsibily, sayg the groups have no prence the Mlim-majory natn of 160 ln South Asia.
Rponsibily for Monday’s attack was claimed by the AQIS-affiliate Ansar al-Islam, which said s victims were targeted as “pneers of practicg and promotg homosexualy.