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Contents:
- BANGLASH SENTENC 6 ANTS TO ATH FOR KILLG GAY ACTIVISTS
- 6 SENTENCED TO DEATH BANGLASH FOR KILLG OF GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST
- 6 SENTENCED TO DEATH BANGLASH FOR KILLG OF GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST
BANGLASH SENTENC 6 ANTS TO ATH FOR KILLG GAY ACTIVISTS
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. * lgbt bangladesh *
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).
6 SENTENCED TO DEATH BANGLASH FOR KILLG OF GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST
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. * lgbt bangladesh *
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. 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.
6 SENTENCED TO DEATH BANGLASH FOR KILLG OF GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST
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. * lgbt bangladesh *
Homosexualy is illegal Banglash, whose law allows life imprisonment for “unnatural terurse”.
The anizers and diversy of performers om our muny (trans, non-bary, queer and cis gay) wanted to energize LGBTIQ+ muny members om every rner of Banglash.
The activist Xulhaz Mannan, who had started a gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr magaze, was hacked to ath a machete attack 2016. * lgbt bangladesh *
But, the performance also wanted to show that spe all the queerphobia we have to face, we ntue to love each other and even our homophobic parents.
This virtual Pri tried to showse the diversy of our dienc wh a plant-based recipe vio by Banglash’s first openly gay/queer vegan uple Tanveer Rouf & Saroar Zubair, who -found Somota Foundatn (EQUAL member). LGBT Banglash is an anisatn, a nstant fight to tablish an equal right for Homosexuals Banglash and Strongly mands crimalisatn of Sectn 377 om Penal Co of Banglash.
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In May, police Banglash arrted 27 men “for homosexualy”.
A Rapid Actn Battaln spokman told the prs that the men had been arrted “for homosexualy” and that had not been termed unr which law they would be formally charged. In October, Mlim groups the untry lled for a prott over statements ma April 2012 by Muhammad Yun, a Banglashi born Nobel Peace Prize wner, which cricised the Ugandan (then proposed) anti-gay laws. Director-General of the State-n Islamic Foundatn, Shamim Mohammad Afza, was quoted as sayg: “Yun has bee an apostate for supportg homosexualy.
What was once a fledglg lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) muny the Banglashi pal of Dhaka is now... * lgbt bangladesh *
Yun has bee an apostate for supportg homosexualy. In Augt, Banglashi natnal newspaper, the Dhaka Tribune, lled for the crimalisatn of homosexualy: “We do believe that even most people, who object to homosexualy, do not want to see people put jail for , do not want the state to waste s rourc treatg as a crime, and do not want to create an environment that allows for persecutn and immiseratn [sic] of homosexuals. In April, Xulhaz Mannan, the founr of Banglash’s only lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) magaze, and Mahbub Rabbi Tonoy were hacked to ath by spected Islamist ants Dhaka.
ILGA’s 2017 ‘State-Sponsored Homophobia’ report noted that “throughout 2016 the levels of vlence and threat om relig radils that LGBT people have been exposed to have exponentially risen, and the State has not offered protectn. In April, the UN Human Rights Commtee exprsed ncern about the “crimalizatn unr sectn 377 of the Penal Co of nsensual sexual acts between same-sex upl… stigmatizatn, harassment and vlence agast lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr persons, barriers to assistance seekg employment of ‘hijras’… by the admistratn of vasive and huiatg medil examatns to prove transgenr stat. Acrdg to the universal claratn of human rights, herent digny and rights which are equal and alienable extend to all members of the human fay, ” Faq Faisel, regnal director of Article 19 Banglash and South Asia, said a prs statement ahead of the Internatnal Day agast Homophobia, Transphobia, and day is observed on May 17 every year sce 1990 memoratg the classifitn of homosexualy as a mental disorr by the World Health Organizatn.