Gay Iranian man ad alleged 'honor killg,' rights group says

Contents:

• THREE ARRTED AFTER GAY MAN BEATEN TO ATH GALICIA
• 13 UNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS LEGALLY PUNISHABLE BY ATH
• THE 6 COUNTRI EXECUTE PEOPLE FOR BEG GAY
• GAY IRANIAN MAN AD ALLEGED 'HONOR KILLG,' RIGHTS GROUP SAYS
• PASTOR SAYS 'SOLUTN' TO GAY PEOPLE IS EXECUTNS: IT'S THE BIBLE
• PREACHER ASKS GOD TO KILL GAY PEOPLE IN “SLOW, PAFUL DEATH”
• THE SERIAL KILLER WHO PREYED UPON GAY NEW YORKERS
• OKLAHOMA GOP NDIDATE LLS KILLG GAY PEOPLE ‘TOTALLY JT’
• NSW POLICE LOSE URT BID TO EXCLU STT JOHNSON KILLG OM GAY HATE QUIRY
• AN ATRALIAN MAN PLEADS GUILTY TO MANSLGHTER ATH OF A GAY AMERIN 1988
• 6 SENTENCED TO DEATH BANGLASH FOR KILLG OF GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST
• GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME

THREE ARRTED AFTER GAY MAN BEATEN TO ATH GALICIA

Spanish police have arrted three people nnectn wh the killg of a young gay man whose ath a possible homophobic attack over the weekend shocked the untry and sparked natnwi Luiz, a 24-year-old nursg assistant, was out wh iends the Galician cy of A Coña the early hours of Saturday when an argument started outsi a iends told El Mundo that Luiz had stepped out of the club to make a vio ll when two passersby acced him of tryg to film them on his phone. ”José Miñon, the central ernment’s legate Galicia, said police were examg whether the attack was motivated by homophobia, addg that the vtigatn was at a ccial stage.

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. 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. 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.

13 UNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS LEGALLY PUNISHABLE BY ATH

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. They had nsensual the Aceh provce of Indonia, homosexualy is a crime that n be punished this btal and gradg More: Disturbg Details of Executns Emerge From Chechnya's 'Gay Torture Camps': ReportEverywhere the world, LGBTQ people are routely harassed, discrimated agast, beaten, and even murred for simply beg who they are.

Half of the untri never follow through on this absolute threat, but e other methods to strip a person of are the six untri that actually kill people for engagg homosexual acts.

Stong to ath is another form of public executn  a untry that kills hundreds of people each More: Taiwan Be First Place Asia to Legalize Same-Sex MarriageNigeriaRunng unter to much of the rt of the world, Nigeria’s print cid to strengthen anti-homosexual laws 2014.

THE 6 COUNTRI EXECUTE PEOPLE FOR BEG GAY

Earlier this year, two men were shot public by the terrorist group after beg found havg More: Lebanon Jt Celebrated Its Very First Gay Pri ParaSudanThe first two tim a person gets ught havg gay sex Sudan n lead to 100 lash and imprisonment up to five years.

Ali Fazeli Monfared, a 20-year-old gay Iranian man, was allegedly killed an “honor killg” by some of his male fay members after they found out he was gay, acrdg to an LGBTQ rights group Iran and Monfared, who was known as Alireza by iends and fay, lived a cy southwt Iran. He had applied for an exemptn om pulsory ary service so he uld leave the untry and move to Turkey to live wh his close iend, Aghil Bayat, acrdg to 6Rang, the Iranian Lbian and Transgenr homosexual nduct is crimalized Iran, part of the ary exemptn law allows gay and transgenr people to receive a medil exemptn om service for their inty.

GAY IRANIAN MAN AD ALLEGED 'HONOR KILLG,' RIGHTS GROUP SAYS

”Fazeli Monfared received an exemptn rd the mail om the Islamic Revolutnary Guard Corps after disclosg his homosexualy, but one of his male relativ found and disvered he was gay, acrdg to 6Rang. “We thk that bee of his genr exprsn and his behavrs, they knew that he is homosexual, but was proof that shows he wants to leave the untry, and he is a gay man, ” Am said. If Fazeli Monfared’s alleged killers had ught him havg sex wh a man, then they might receive lser punishments for his is one of an timated 11 untri where same-sex sexual acts are punishable by ath, acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, and one of almost 70 untri where is crimalized, acrdg to Human Rights Watch, an ternatnal human rights group based New York.

"The are moral prcipl regardg the behavr of people general, ” he said at the time, acrdg to German broadster Dtsche are no statistics or rerds of the number of anti-LGBTQ “honor killgs” — which are perpetrated by relativ who feel the LGBTQ person has brought “dishonor” to the fay — that happen Iran or other untri that crimalize homosexualy, Tara Sepehri Far, who vtigat human rights ab Iran and Kuwa for Human Rights Watch, told NBC said Fazeli Monfared’s se highlights the importance of the role of the fay LGBTQ people’s liv when the state crimaliz who they are. “Exposg that to the very same thori who, theory, have the thory to arrt and prosecute you is very risky, ” she said other untri should prsure Iran to remove the law crimalizg homosexualy and the ath penalty “bee this is the reason why the fai, they allow themselv to have the right to vlate their children. What's TeA Ugandan ernment mister announced an tentn to make homosexualy punishable by ath October 2019; the Natnal Christian Foundatn has fund projects that opposed LGBT rights Uganda; and the WShape Foundatn, closely lked to Chick-fil-A, has fund the Natnal Christian Foundatn.

What's FalseHowever, the Ugandan mister did not signal an tent to legalize the murr of LGBT people, and his remarks were quickly ntradicted by the ernment; also, 's not clear to what extent Natnal Christian Foundatn-fund enti were volved the creatn or promotn of a bill to make homosexualy punishable by ath. 10, Uganda's Mister for Ethics and Integry, Simon Lokodo, told the Rters news agency that the untry's ernment tend to revive a failed 2014 bill, known at the time as the "Kill the Gays" bill, that would make "grave acts" of homosexualy punishable by ath.

PASTOR SAYS 'SOLUTN' TO GAY PEOPLE IS EXECUTNS: IT'S THE BIBLE

Uganda announced plans on Thursday for a bill that would impose the ath penalty on homosexuals, sayg the legislatn would curb a rise unnatural sex the east Ain natn. “Homosexualy is not natural to Ugandans, but there has been a massive recment by gay people schools, and pecially among the youth, where they are promotg the falsehood that people are born like that, ” Ethics and Integry Mister Simon Lokodo told the Thomson Rters Foundatn.

By 2014, however, a bill signed to law would have troduced life imprisonment for homosexualy, but the ath penalty punishment had been removed om s text, part as a rult of ternatnal prsure. Two days after Lokodo signaled the ernment's tentn to revive the troductn of the ath penalty for homosexualy October 2019, the ernment prs office self tervened, directly ntradictg the mister's assertns, and wrg a statement:. Until or unls Lokodo issu a retractn of his remarks, or further clarifitn is forthg, is simply not clear what the Ugandan ernment's rolved tentns are, as of October 2019, regardg the possible troductn of the ath penalty as a punishment for homosexual acts.

Some observers might see an ethil equivalence between imposg state executn as a punishment for homosexualy, on the one hand, and legally permtg any and every civilian to murr another civilian, on the basis of sexual orientatn or genr inty.

PREACHER ASKS GOD TO KILL GAY PEOPLE IN “SLOW, PAFUL DEATH”

David Behati — who first troduced the Anti-Homosexualy Bill 2009 and was a key player the ensug mpaign — scribed to Sharlet the fluence of a ntroversial Amerin Christian nservative movement known lloquially as "The Fellowship" and "The Fay" visg and enuragg the legislatn, cludg at the early stag when still clud a ath penalty provisn. Bob Hunter, signated by the Fay as a spokman to rpond to the Uganda fias, has referred to David Bahati, the thor of the Anti-Homosexualy Bill, as a member of the Fay. For rears not faiar wh , by the way, “harsh” is an unrstatement: life imprisonment for gay sex, ath for “serial offenrs, ” seven years for “promotn, ” and three years for failg to turn a known homosexual.

However, spe plsible reports, is not clear to what extent NCF-fund enti or dividuals were volved the nty grty of draftg and promotg legislatn, begng 2009, which would have imposed the ath penalty for homosexualy. "In a Sunday sermon tled "Why We Won't Shut Up, " Aw of Stedfast Baptist Church said that "every sgle" gay person Ameri should be executed by the ernment.

""The state of Texas still has the ath penalty for many crim, and this is not advotg murr, " he Sunday, Christian hate-preacher Dillon Aw said that the ernment should execute every gay person. "Sunday's sermon is not the first time members of the Stedfast Baptist Church have preached anti-LGBT year, Shelley, who has repeatedly lled for the ath of gay people, celebrated the ath of a gay man at a Pri para. A fundamentalist pastor gave a sermon which he prayed for “every homo that exists” to suffer “a slow, paful ath” — ntug a trend which he and other right-wg pastors fixate on gay people when rantg about s and remptn.

THE SERIAL KILLER WHO PREYED UPON GAY NEW YORKERS

He has flouted the e of anti-gay slurs his sermons, lks the LGBTQ Pri movement wh pedophilia, and equently lls for gay people to be executed by the state (wh the Uned Stat beg a theocracy dited to rryg out those executns). READ NEXTChechen Pop Star Was Tortured and ExecutedJapane Pop Star Com Out as GayMissouri Sued Over Ban on Genr-Affirmg CareLGBTQ+ Victory Fund Endors Joe Vogel for Congrs.

However, the pellg hook of Anthony Caronna and Howard Gertler’s four-part HBO vtigatn (July 9) is that ’s both a whodun and a soclogil crique of the era and environment which s tale took place: early 1990s New York Cy, whose climate of homophobia facilated s villa’s homicis. Wh anti-gay and trans legislatn currently sweepg the natn, ’s an all-too-relevant story about persecutn and vlence, and the way which public rhetoric—and actn—fosters further hate. Otherwise, however, there was ltle eful physil evince procured om the ems, so ps shifted their attentn to Mulhy’s movements the days and hours leadg up to his they soon learned, Mulhy had last been seen on July 8, 1992, at midtown Manhattan’s Townhoe Bar, an upsle gay waterg hole where olr well-to-do gentlemen often met younger suors.

OKLAHOMA GOP NDIDATE LLS KILLG GAY PEOPLE ‘TOTALLY JT’

Cops, meanwhile, found difficult to nvce people and around this tablishment to talk to them, sce 1992, the relatnship between the police and the gay muny was fed by distst, if not outright antipathy, much of born om the former’s history of prejudiced harassment and hostily. Clearly, someone was killg gay men after meetg them at clubs, and bee of his mod operandi, the assailant was dubbed by The New York Daily News as the “Last Call Killer.

Jt as ptivatg, though, ’s a vivid snapshot of s particular moment, narrated large part by two dividuals who were on the ontl of the fight for equal LGTBQ+ rights: The New York Gay & Lbian Anti-Vlence Project’s Bea Hanson and Matt Foreman. Rellg a time when gay Amerins were both emergg om the shadows force (pecially NYC) and facg creased antagonism and threats (cludg om the ragg AIDS epimic), Hanson and Foreman offer timate and passnate first-hand acunts of the cultural and polil atmosphere of the early ’90s.

Employg plentiful archival material, Last Call is a simultaneoly vibrant and sorrowful look backwards, s nostalgia for the burgeong gay movement lored by the fear that so many felt bee of homophobia and the mortal danger posed—as well as the anger that was a direct byproduct of beg ignored, slanred, and opprsed.

NSW POLICE LOSE URT BID TO EXCLU STT JOHNSON KILLG OM GAY HATE QUIRY

Still om Last Call: When a Serial Killer Stalked Queer New YorkHBO In separate terviews wh different tectiv, Last Call highlights police officers’ ignorance about the gay muny and their reticence to relate to the murrs. A GOP ndidate for the Oklahoma state hoe is unr fire over his rurfaced remarks jtifyg the murr of gay Esk was mpaigng for a different seat 2013 when he said that acrdg to the Bible, Christians would be “totally the right” to kill gay people a Facebook ment ments gaed renewed attentn as Mr Esk’s prepar to take on fellow Republin Gloria Banister a n-off primary electn for Oklahoma’s 87th Hoe District on Tuday. Prsed about the remarks ahead of this week’s electn, Mr Esk appeared to double down by llg “totally jt” to kill gay people bee “ me directly om God” 2013, on an article about the Pope askg “who am I to judge?

”He posted a 19-mute YouTube vio on 15 July of this year to “set the rerd straight” rponse to a lol news report on his prev asked the vio if havg “an opn agast homosexualy” means that he’s “a homophobe, ” addg that he thks that “simply mak me a Christian” add that he’s “not for expandg the ath penalty for homosexualy” but he still cricised what he said he believ are the “obscene thgs homosexuals do”.

AN ATRALIAN MAN PLEADS GUILTY TO MANSLGHTER ATH OF A GAY AMERIN 1988

A bid by New South Wal police to exclu a high-profile killg om a gay hate quiry has been ath of US mathematician Stt Johnson is one of dozens of s unr the spotlight at a special missn of quiry to spected gay hate crim Sydney between 1970 and 27-year-old died after he was punched at a gay beat on Sydney’s northern beach. In the latt velopment, Stt Phillip Whe plead guilty to throwg the punch that ultimately ed Johnson to fall to his month, jtice Robert Beech-Jon dismissed “what appears to be an absurd suggtn [by police] that Dr Johnson killed himself” when sentencg Whe to ne years past newsletter promotnafter newsletter promotnNSW police had argued Johnson’s ath was outsi the current quiry’s terms of reference on the basis the matter was not unsolved, the man rponsible for his ath intified as gay and a sentencg judge did not fd the ath to be motivated by gay the quiry’s missner, jtice John Sackar, on Tuday led s terms of reference were much wir and answers to qutns such as how and why Johnson died were still not urt did not make a fdg beyond reasonable doubt that Whe was motivated by gay hate, but did not le out the possibily, he is due to hand down his fal report next month.

6 SENTENCED TO DEATH BANGLASH FOR KILLG OF GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST

CANBERRA, Atralia — An Atralian plead guilty on Thursday to the manslghter of an Amerin who fell to his ath 35 years ago om a Sydney clifftop that was known as a gay meetg place, wh the victim's fay welg the latt twist their long mpaign for jtice. A roner led 2017 that Stt Johnson "fell om the clifftop as a rult of actual or threatened vlence" by unknown assailants who "attacked him bee they perceived him to be homosexual.

GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME

A New South Wal ernment quiry began hearg evince November of unsolved aths rultg om gay hate crim over four s Atralia's most populo state, where police were notorly different to such vlence. Vlence agast gay men Sydney was particularly prevalent om the mid-1980s until the early 1990s due to creased hostily and fear stemmg om the AIDS epimic, an HIV support group, ACON, told the quiry. 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.

“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. It is unclear how many of the men publicly or privately intified as gay or were part of gay muni and works that had been tablished Germany before the Nazi rise to power.