LGBT+ advot have said they feel Islamic laws have been ed to target untry’s gay muny
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- MALAYSIAN MAN WS LANDMARK SE AGAST MLIM GAY SEX BAN
- ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
- NAMIBIAN MPS BACK ANTI-GAY LAW SPE SUPREME COURT LG
- 'THIS IS HISTORIC': MALAYSIAN MAN WS APPEAL AGAST ISLAMIC GAY SEX CHARGE
MALAYSIAN MAN WS LANDMARK SE AGAST MLIM GAY SEX BAN
For ee real time breakg news alerts sent straight to your box sign up to our breakg news emailsSign up to our ee breakg news emailsA Malaysian man on Thursday won a landmark urt challenge agast an Islamic ban on sex “agast the orr of nature”, raisg hop for greater acceptance of gay rights the mostly Mlim Mlim man his 30s – whose name has been whheld by his lawyer to protect his privacy – filed the lawsu after he was arrted the central Selangor state 2018 for attemptg gay sex, which he acts are illegal Malaysia, although nvictns are rare.
The untry, which has 13 stat, has a dual-track legal system, wh Islamic crimal and fay laws applible to Mlims nng alongsi civil advot say Islamic laws have been creasgly ed to target the Southeast Asian untry’s gay muny, wh a rise arrts and punishments rangg om ng to a unanimo cisn, Malaysia’s top urt led on Thursday that the Islamic provisn ed Selangor was unnstutnal and thori had no power to enact the law.
Dpe the lg, gay Malaysian men still face up to 20 years jail unr a Brish lonial-era law that bans gay sex, known as Sectn 377. Of urse Sectn 377 is still there - ’s not the end but this is a begng, ” Numan told the Thomson Rters Malaysia, a untry of 32 ln where 60 per cent of the populatn is Mlim, many gay people are not open about their man who lnched the legal challenge argued that Selangor had no power to enforce an Islamic ban on “terurse agast the orr of nature” when gay sex was already a crime unr civil urt agreed, clarg that the state’s power to enact such offenc “is subject to a nstutnal lim”, the chief jtice Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat wrote the Selangor Islamic Relig Council, a rponnt the su, did not immediately rpond to a requt for man volved the legal challenge was among 11 men arrted on spicn of attemptg gay sex durg a raid at a private of the group plead guilty, and were sentenced to jail, ng and f 2019, sparkg outrage among human rights activists who said created an environment of fear for LGBT+ women were ned for “attemptg lbian sex” unr Islamic laws the east ast state of Terengganu 2018, the same year that saw a transgenr woman attacked. The amendments to sharia crimal laws were proposed rponse to social media posts celebratg the lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr muny as part of Pri Month June, said Ahmad Marz Shaary, puty mister charge of relig affairs, a statement.
ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
Later that year, five men were sentenced to jail, ng and f for attemptg gay sex. Vcent and the Grenad, where gay sex is still homelsns to ongog physil and verbal abe, the gay muny the small natn of some 100, 000 people says is unr nstant threat. Vcent, anal sex is punishable by up to 10 years prison, while “gross cency” wh another person of the same sex is punishable by up to five years, acrdg to lonial-era laws that are mon the socially nservative Caribbean rarely voked, the rights group and a lol activist said the laws help legimize hostily and abe agast gay people.
NAMIBIAN MPS BACK ANTI-GAY LAW SPE SUPREME COURT LG
”In July 2019, two gay men om St. Vcent who are livg abroad filed a se to challenge lol laws crimalizg gay sex that activists say should be stck down.
”Human Rights Watch terviewed more than 20 members of the island’s LGBTQ muny who shared their stori but were not intified to protect them, notg that lol police are often openly discrimatory toward gay people who seek help. One gay man relled how his classmat beat him and broke his arm.
Several reported that their fai are homophobic and physilly and verbally abed them, g them to bee homels and promptg some to nsir also stggle to fd jobs amid a high unemployment rate and said they face discrimatn, cludg a 19-year-old gay man who said he has rorted to beggg: “Sometim I am so hungry. It is hard for me as a gay this untry.
'THIS IS HISTORIC': MALAYSIAN MAN WS APPEAL AGAST ISLAMIC GAY SEX CHARGE
”Six English-speakg natns the Caribbean still crimalize gay sex, cludg Domi, Jamai, Guyana, Grenada and St. Gonsalv prevly noted there’s been a history of discrimatn agast gay people.