The official fictn, Brian Whaker explas, is that gay people don’t exist the Middle East. They do – and for many of them, attus of fay and society are a bigger problem than fear of beg persecuted
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- EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BEG GAY MLIM UNTRI
- 13 UNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS LEGALLY PUNISHABLE BY ATH
EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BEG GAY MLIM UNTRI
Advot have nceled a regnal gatherg of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) activists Indonia’s pal, Jakarta, rponse to harassment and ath threats om Mlim nservativ. * lgbt rights in saudi arabia *
Speakg on homophobia the sport a lengthy statement 2021, Henrson said: “My view on this is very much the same as on any other form of discrimatn the game, whether relat to race, relig tolerance, disabily or any other. Liverpool’s LGBT+ fans group has said is “appalled and ncerned” that club pta Jordan Henrson is nsirg a transfer offer om Sdi Athletic reported on Wednday eveng that Henrson, who has been a long-time ally for the LGBT+ muny, was leang towards a move to Al Ettifaq, the Sdi Pro League si currently managed by his former team-mate Steven homosexual or transgenr Sdi Arabia is illegal, while anyone who intifi themselv as LGBT+ n be subjected to severe Outs released a statement on Thursday rponse to the potential transfer, sayg that they hoped that Henrson would “prove to be a man of his word” a thread shared to social media and wh The Athletic, the group — which also qutned Gerrard’s cisn to take up a role the untry — said: “Kop Outs have valued the allyship shown by Jordan DEEPERJordan Henrson's potential Sdi move matters for a lot more reasons than hypocrisy“We are appalled and ncerned that anyone might nsir workg for a sportswashg operatn for a regime where women & LGBT+ people are opprsed and that regularly tops the world ath sentence table. ”A transfer to Sdi Arabia — where homosexualy means “misery, isolatn or, worse, ath, ” one terviewee told The Athletic’s Adam Crafton 2021 — would be viewed by many as a signifint U-turn on the pro-LGBT+ views for which Henrson has stood 33-year-old has been one of the most high profile players to have taken part Stonewall’s Rabow Lac mpaign and he has worn a rabow embellished pta’s armband the past.
”The England midfielr was regnised 2021 when he was shortlisted alongsi manager Jurgen Klopp for the Football Ally honour at the Brish LGBT Josh Cavallo beme the first active profsnal to e out as gay October of that year, Henrson was among the footballers to show his support, sayg Cavallo had shared “an important msage that everyone serv to be themselv no matter what”.
On 16 April 2012, the Commissn for the Promotn of Virtue and Preventn of Vice, the most feared law enforcement thory the oil-rich untry, reportedly had been asked to enforce the new orrs to bar “gays and tom-boys” om s ernment schools and universi [R1. On 11 November 2014, a urt the port cy Dammam the Eastern Provce was reported to have sentenced a homosexual man to three years jail for engagg “immoral acts” and orred him to pay a SR100, 000 fe [R2.
13 UNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS LEGALLY PUNISHABLE BY ATH
On 23 June 2014, on the rmatn of the Commissn for the Promotn of Virtue and the Preventn of Vice, the relig police, a urt was reported to have sentenced a homosexual man to three years prison and 450 lash over 15 ssns for g his Twter acunt to promote homosexual ntacts [R2. They relied on a “bchery” law that had been ed the early 2000s agast gay men and transgenr women and was revived wh a vengeance followg the 2013 up, when the ernment, led by Print Abl Fattah al-Sisi, appeared to embrace persecutn of gays and trans people as a polil strategy.
The majory of the terviewe intified as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, or queer, while a few intified as heterosexual and cisgenr (see glossary) but were eply engaged activist work supportg LGBT people. The report also builds upon prev rearch nducted by Human Rights Watch wh LGBT activists and other LGBT people Lebanon, Tunisia, Moroc, Egypt, Kuwa, Iraq, and the Uned Arab Emirat, and on Human Rights Watch’s prev reportg on vlatns agast LGBT people the regn, cludg the reports Digny Debased: Forced Anal Examatns Homosexualy Prosecutns (2016); “It’s Part of the Job”: Ill-treatment and Torture of Vulnerable Groups Lebane Police Statns (2013); “‘They Hunt Down for Fun’: Discrimatn and Police Vlence Agast Transgenr Women Kuwa (2012); “They Want Us Extermated”: Murr, Torture, Sexual Orientatn and Genr Iraq (2009); and In a Time of Torture: The Asslt on Jtice In Egypt's Crackdown on Homosexual Conduct (2004). [7] Egypt is a serial offenr terms of systematic e of such provisns agast LGBT people: a law prohibg “bchery, ” ially promulgated 1951 for the purpose of crimalizg sex work and then replaced by Law 10/1961 on the Combatg of Prostutn, has been ed by the thori sce the 1990s to prosecute homosexual nduct between men, rultg hundreds of arrts.