Sgapore announced on Sunday that will repeal a law crimalisg gay sex but many other parts of the world homosexualy is illegal and sometim subject to the ath penalty." emprop="scriptn
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THE DEATH PENALTY FOR BEING GAY?
Global outcry over Meveni’s assent to dranian new anti-gay law, nmned as a ‘permissn slip for hate and humanisatn’ * lgbt death penalty *
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). Two gay men were executed Iran January 2022.
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.
In July 2022, another gay man was executed Iran unr a “sodomy” charge, acrdg to human rights groups. Uganda’s print, Yoweri Meveni, has signed to law the world’s harsht anti-LGBTQ+ bill, which allows the ath penalty for homosexual move immediately drew nmnatn om many Ugandans as well as wispread ternatnal outrage.
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. | * lgbt death penalty *
It impos the ath penalty or life imprisonment for certa same-sex acts, up to 20 years prison for “recment, promotn and fundg” of same-sex “activi”, and anyone nvicted of “attempted aggravated homosexualy” fac a 14-year sentence. The bill would have still bee law whout the print’s assent if he returned a send tweeted on Monday morng: “The print … has assented to the Anti-Homosexualy Act.
A statement om the UN read: “We are appalled that the dranian and discrimatory anti-gay bill is now law.