Iran mt immediately stay the executns of two women sentenced to ath for supportg the human rights of lbian, gay, bisexual, trans and genr-diverse (LGBT) people, a large group of UN-appoted pennt human rights experts said on Wednday. |
Contents:
- THE DEATH PENALTY FOR BEING GAY?
- FOLLOWG BACKLASH, US CLARIFI UN VOTE ON 'DEATH PENALTY FOR GAYS'
- 13 UNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS LEGALLY PUNISHABLE BY ATH
- A GAY MAN GOT THE DEATH PENALTY DUE TO HOMOPHOBIA — AND SCOTUS DID NOTHG
- UN ISSU FIRST REPORT ON HUMAN RIGHTS OF GAY AND LBIAN PEOPLE
- US VOT AGAST UN MOTN TO NMN GAY SEX ATH PENALTY ‘OVER FEARS EXECUTNS ULD BE BANNED THE STAT’
- UGANDAN PRINT SIGNS ANTI-GAY LAW THAT INCLUS DEATH PENALTY AS A PUNISHMENT
THE DEATH PENALTY FOR BEING GAY?
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Human RightsIran mt immediately stay the executns of two women sentenced to ath for supportg the human rights of lbian, gay, bisexual, trans and genr-diverse (LGBT) people, a large group of UN-appoted pennt human rights experts said on Wednday.
"The Uned Stat unequivolly nmns the applitn of the ath penalty for nduct such as homosexualy, blasphemy, adultery, and apostasy. In a tweet, Haley said there was "NO vote by USUN that supported the ath penalty for gay people, " addg, "We have always fought for jtice for the LGBT muny. "Homosexualy is illegal more than 70 natns and 13 of them implement the ath penalty for homosexual acts, acrdg to a 2016 report by the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn (ILGA).
FOLLOWG BACKLASH, US CLARIFI UN VOTE ON 'DEATH PENALTY FOR GAYS'
The first ever UN report on the human rights of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people tails how people are killed or endure hate-motivated vlence, torture, tentn, crimalizatn and discrimatn bee of their real or perceived sexual orientatn or genr inty. | * un lgbt death penalty *
As exampl, she ced the admistratn's reversal on Obama-era transgenr protectns and the lack of nmnatn g om the admistratn followg reports of an anti-gay purge Chechnya.
In 2022, ILGA Asia, the Internatnal Commissn of Jurists (ICJ) and five other anisatns nmned the e of vlence agast LGBTQ+ people a statement issued to mark Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT).
There was wispread uproar January 2022 when a human rights work said that two gay men had been executed Iran after spendg six years on ath row.
13 UNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS LEGALLY PUNISHABLE BY ATH
Makg homosexualy punishable by ath is an egreg vlatn of human rights, pennt UN Human Rights Council-appoted experts said on Wednday, urgg Uganda’s print to veto new laws approved by parliament this month, which further crimalise people intifyg as lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT), and those who fend them. | * un lgbt death penalty *
After several weeks of fierce nmnatn by world lears, the sultanate announced wouldn’t enforce the ath penalty for people engagg homosexual acts.
A GAY MAN GOT THE DEATH PENALTY DUE TO HOMOPHOBIA — AND SCOTUS DID NOTHG
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. The acunts differ on the method of killg, and other acunts suggt lser penalti for homosexual acts, pendg on the circumstanc.
UN ISSU FIRST REPORT ON HUMAN RIGHTS OF GAY AND LBIAN PEOPLE
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.
US VOT AGAST UN MOTN TO NMN GAY SEX ATH PENALTY ‘OVER FEARS EXECUTNS ULD BE BANNED THE STAT’
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.
YemenIn Yemen, the law stat that unmarried gay men will be punished wh 100 whip lash or one year prison, but married gay men face ath by stong. Gay women are to be imprisoned for up to three January 2019 a man Iran was hanged after beg found guilty of havg sex wh another man. In 2007, then-Print of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadejad famoly said durg a vis to Columbia Universy: "In Iran, we don't have homosexuals, like your untry.
Two of the most shockg measur were punishg thiev by amputatn and makg homosexual acts and adultery pal crim. Not only did ban gay marriage, but also banned the registratn of gay clubs, societi and other anizatns supportg the LGBT muny.
UGANDAN PRINT SIGNS ANTI-GAY LAW THAT INCLUS DEATH PENALTY AS A PUNISHMENT
While this law is applied across the entire untry, 12 northern stat have their own laws, punishg gay men and women wh ath by stong. The punishment for other gay activi, fed as "acts of lt, " is also imprisonment but between two months and two years.
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.
The legal lgo n be terpreted as makg all male homosexual terurse a pal crime but n also mean that 's only for forced male homosexual terurse. There is no rerd to date of nsensual homosexual acts beg punished by anythg but jail terms of differg lengths and f.