Sudan's cisn to lift the ath penalty and floggg as punishment for gay sex was hailed by LGBT+ activists on Thursday as a promisg sign after almost four s of Islamist le, wh lls for prison sentenc to be abolished as well.
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- ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
- 'GREAT FIRST STEP' AS SUDAN LIFTS ATH PENALTY AND FLOGGG FOR GAY SEX
ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
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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. ”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.
'GREAT FIRST STEP' AS SUDAN LIFTS ATH PENALTY AND FLOGGG FOR GAY SEX
It is hard for me as a gay this untry. ”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.
That kd of irratnal homophobia is entirely unacceptable. ”González wh Human Rights Watch noted that 2019, the ernment held a workshop for public employe on the importance of rpectg gay rights, a rare move for a nservative Caribbean natn. AMMAN/LONDON (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - Sudan’s cisn to lift the ath penalty and floggg as punishment for gay sex was hailed by LGBT+ activists on Thursday as a promisg sign after almost four s of Islamist le, wh lls for prison sentenc to be abolished as cricised the relaxatn of the law nservative Sudan, where a transnal ernment has promised to lead the untry to mocracy after the topplg last year of tocrat Omar al-Bashir, who had been power sce 1989.
Sudan was one of six untri, cludg Iran, Sdi Arabia, Yemen, Nigeria and Somalia, that imposed the ath penalty for gay sex, acrdg to the LGBT+ rights group Sudan’s old sodomy law, gay men faced 100 lash for the first offence, five years jail for the send and the ath penalty the third time around. The punishments have been rced to prison terms, rangg om five years to legal amendment was part of several reforms announced by the jtice mister on Saturday, cludg plans to crimalise apostasy - the abandonment of a relign - and to perm non-Mlims to nsume will also ban female genal mutilatn, which typilly volv the partial or total removal of the external genalia of girls and women, and allow women to travel wh their children whout a perm om a male relative, he said the ernment was discreet about droppg the ath penalty for gay sex and s amendment document did not tail what Article 148 - the sodomy law - was about.