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:
- 13 UNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS LEGALLY PUNISHABLE BY ATH
- HERE ARE THE 11 UNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS PUNISHABLE BY ATH
- MAP SHOWS WHERE IT’S ILLEGAL TO BE GAY – 30 YEARS SCE WHO DECLASSIFIED HOMOSEXUALY AS DISEASE
- HOMOSEXUALY: THE UNTRI WHERE IS ILLEGAL TO BE GAY
- THE DEATH PENALTY FOR BEING GAY?
- UGANDA'S LGBTQ MUNY IS ' SHOCK' OVER NEW MEASURE, GAY ACTIVIST SAYS
- BNEI STONG: WHICH PLAC HAVE THE ATH PENALTY FOR GAY SEX?
- WHERE IS ILLEGAL TO BE GAY?
- A GAY MAN GOT THE DEATH PENALTY DUE TO HOMOPHOBIA — AND SCOTUS DID NOTHG
- FOLLOWG BACKLASH, US CLARIFI UN VOTE ON 'DEATH PENALTY FOR GAYS'
- DISCRIMATORY USE OF DEATH PENALTY AGAST GAYS RAIS CONCERNS GLOBALLY AND THE U.S.
- UGANDAN PRINT SIGNS ANTI-GAY LAW THAT INCLUS DEATH PENALTY AS A PUNISHMENT
13 UNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS LEGALLY PUNISHABLE BY ATH
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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.
HERE ARE THE 11 UNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS PUNISHABLE BY ATH
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.
MAP SHOWS WHERE IT’S ILLEGAL TO BE GAY – 30 YEARS SCE WHO DECLASSIFIED HOMOSEXUALY AS DISEASE
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.
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.
HOMOSEXUALY: THE UNTRI WHERE IS ILLEGAL TO BE GAY
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 DEATH PENALTY FOR BEING GAY?
The untry's Penal Co stat that "rnal terurse agast the orr of nature" — which n mean homosexualy, even though 's not explicly mentned — is punishable by a fe and/or imprisonment om two years to life. While LGBTQ rights have ma great stris parts of the world, homosexualy remas illegal an timated 70 untri, and 11 untri rry the potential for the ath penalty, particularly among men who have sex wh men. The newt addn to this list, homosexualy was already punishable by up to 10 years imprisonment Bnei, but the south-east Asian natn has recently implemented a strict new law that punish male same-sex activy wh ath by stong.
What the law says: “Homosexualy is the ntact of one man to another through his posterr; both sodom whether mal or femal are punished wh whippg of one hundred strok if not married.
It's still illegal to be LGBT+ 70 untri, and you uld be given the ath penalty 12, as the world marks 30 years sce “homosexualy” was classified as a disease. Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia (IDAHOBIT), May 17 marks the day the World Health Organisatn (WHO) classified “homosexualy” as a mental disorr. As the world reach 30 years sce beg gay was no longer an ternatnally signated disease, a map by an ternatnal LGBT anizatn shows remas illegal to be gay 70 untri.
UGANDA'S LGBTQ MUNY IS ' SHOCK' OVER NEW MEASURE, GAY ACTIVIST SAYS
The map by the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn shows that only 65% of those livg UN untri around the world n now be, legally, nsensual same-sex relatnships. Seventy-three untri, or 37 percent of the Uned Natns, clare same-sex physil relatns illegal, acrdg to a prehensive survey of sexual orientatn laws om the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn (ILGA), Iran, Sdi Arabia, and Yemen ll for the ath penalty natnwi for same-sex relatns, the report says, while other plac n impose ath penalti regnally, along wh f and prison sentenc.
BNEI STONG: WHICH PLAC HAVE THE ATH PENALTY FOR GAY SEX?
Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Kamala Harris has been a vol supporter of LGBTQ rightsUS Vice-Print Kamala Harris who is on a tour of three Ain untri - Ghana, Tanzania and Zambia - has drawn cricism over her support for LGBTQ Ghana, a speech llg for "all people be treated equally" she appeared to cricise a bill before the untry's parliament which crimalis advocy for gay rights and propos jail terms for those that intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, or untry's Speaker Alban Bagb later lled her remarks "unmocratic" and urged lawmakers not to be "timidated by any person" Tanzania, a former mister spoke agast US support for LGBTQ rights ahead of the vis and Zambia some opposn policians have threatened to hold is homosexualy still outlawed?
In the same month, the high urt Barbados stck out laws that crimalised gay July last year, the urts Antigua and Barbuda clared a law crimalisg same-sex acts between nsentg adults Febary 2021, Angola's Print Joao Louren signed to law a revised penal to allow same-sex relatnships and ban discrimatn on the basis of sexual 2020, Gabon reversed a law that had crimalised homosexualy and ma gay sex punishable wh six months prison and a large fe. Mozambique and the Seychell have also scrapped anti-homosexualy laws recent there are untri where existg laws outlawg homosexualy have been tightened, cludg Nigeria and 's parliament recently passed a law to crack down on homosexual activi, promptg wispread source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Campaign agast LGBTQ rights some Ain untri has tensified recent weeksAnd some untri, efforts to get the laws removed have May 2019, the high urt Kenya upheld laws crimalisg homosexual acts. And many plac, breakg the laws uld be punishable by long prison of the 53 untri the Commonwealth - a loose associatn of untri most of them former Brish loni - 29 have laws that crimalise homosexualy.
WHERE IS ILLEGAL TO BE GAY?
Although the origal Brish laws applied only to men, untri that crimalise homosexualy today also have penalti for women who have sex wh Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn (Ilga) monors the progrs of laws relatg to homosexualy around the says the ath penalty is the legally prcribed punishment for same-sex sexual acts Bnei, Iran, Mrania, Sdi Arabia, Yemen and some northern stat of five untri - Afghanistan, Pakistan, Qatar, Somalia, and the Uned Arab Emirat - there is no legal clary and the ath penalty uld be source, AFPImage ptn, An Indian gay rights activist protts agast a urt lg 2013 upholdg a law which crimalis gay repealed the ath penalty for nsensual same-sex sexual acts observers note that the risk of prosecutn some plac is mimal. For example, a 2017 report on Jamai by the UK Home Office said that Jamai was regard as a homophobic society, but that the "thori do not actively seek to prosecute LGBT persons". KAMPALA, Uganda — Members of Uganda’s LGBTQ muny are shock and fear beg arrted after Parliament passed a measure that would make a crime to intify as gay and impose tough sentenc that clu the ath penalty certa s, an activist said “Anti-Homosexualy Bill, 2023” was passed wh a near-unanimo majory by lawmakers the east Ain untry, where anti-gay sentiment ns ep.
Ronald Kabuubi / APThe legislatn will next be sent to Print Yoweri Meveni, who has repeatedly nounced homosexualy, to be signed to Mugisha, one of a few Ugandans who live openly as gay, told Rters he was sred the measure would trigger “mass arrts of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer persons and mob vlence toward LGBTQ muni. There’s gog to be a lot of trma and s of mental health that will lead to a lot of suici, ” he relatns were already illegal Uganda, but supporters of the new law say is need to punish a broar array of LGBTQ activi, which they say threaten tradnal valu the nservative and relig East Ain measure clus steep sentenc that clu ath for “aggravated homosexualy” and life prison for same-sex relatns.
A GAY MAN GOT THE DEATH PENALTY DUE TO HOMOPHOBIA — AND SCOTUS DID NOTHG
Image source, Getty ImagBnei is troducg new laws that make sex between men an offence punishable by stong to jos Iran, Sdi Arabia, Yemen, Sudan, Mrania and parts of Nigeria and Somalia, which also impose the ath penalty for same-sex relatnships, acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn (ILGA).
Commonwealth untriMany of the stat crimalisg homosexual relatns are Commonwealth untri (35 total) wh legal statut origatg om Brish lonial Commonwealth Secretary General, Patricia Stland, has urged the ernment of Bnei to rensir the new punishments, which, she says, "will potentially brg to effect cel and human punishments which ntravene ternatnal human rights law and standards".
FOLLOWG BACKLASH, US CLARIFI UN VOTE ON 'DEATH PENALTY FOR GAYS'
A lg by the Indian Supreme Court 2018 removed India om the list of stat that explicly outlaw gay 's membership of the Commonwealth had ma s lg, strikg down a lonial-era law, particularly signifint, said Tea Brn of the Human Digny Tst, a UK-based chary that supports those challengg anti-gay laws. "Its dismantlg by the Indian Supreme Court, after over a century and a half of opprsn agast LGBT people, signals a change ti for the world, " she told BBC challengIn a number untri, legal challeng uld brg about change:In Kenya, the High Court is due to le on whether to crimalise homosexualy, on 24 MayIn Botswana, a judgment om the High Court on a legal challenge to crimalisatn is due this yearIn Jamai, laws crimalisg gay relatns are facg a challengeSame-sex marriageGay marriage is now legal 26 untri worldwi, the ILGA says. Image source, RtersImage ptn, Costa Ri's top urt recently led favour of gay marriageBrazil and Mexi are also on the ILGA's list bee "through one legal route or another, appears to be possible to marry most jurisdictns".
Countri where gay marriage is now legal:2001 Netherlands2003 Belgium2005 Canada, Spa2006 South Ai2009 Norway, Swen2010 Iceland, Portugal, Argenta2012 Denmark2013 Uguay, New Zealand, France, Brazil2014 UK (Northern Ireland 2019)2015 Luxembourg, Republic of Ireland, Mexi, USA2016 Colombia2017 Fland, Malta, Germany and Atralia2019 AtriaAnd Augt 2018, Costa Ri's top urt overturned a ban on same-sex marriage and gave legislators 18 months to change the law. In five untri and parts of two others, homosexualy is still punishable wh the ath penalty, while a further 70 imprison cizens bee of their sexual where homosexualy is legal, many untri treat those same-sex relatnships differently, such as havg an unequal age of nsent or a ban on marriage. In Rsia, host of the Sochi Wter Olympics, a law banng the promotn of "non-tradnal" sexualy to unr-18s was troduced last, where is illegal to be gay?
Supreme Court refed to hear a se which anti-gay bias was part of jurors’ cisn to execute Charl Rh, a South Dakotan gay man, rather than sentence him to a life prison. The attorneys reprentg Charl Rh hoped that the Court would extend s lg to bias based on sexual orientatn, argug that “like race-based bias, anti-gay bias systemic harm to the jtice system and, particular, pal jury sentencg. 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.
DISCRIMATORY USE OF DEATH PENALTY AGAST GAYS RAIS CONCERNS GLOBALLY AND THE U.S.
"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). 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. Acrdg to ILGA, an ternatnal feratn mpaigng for LGBT rights, homosexualy is punishable by up to eight years prison 31 untri and 10 years to life prison another 10 untri.
Passg the Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Fay Valu bill would further rce eedoms a untry where gay sex is already punishable wh up to three years jail, crics and activists Odoi, an amic rearcher, filed a lawsu on July 7 challengg the bill's nstutnaly, sayg would impact donor aid and other forms of fancial support. Ghana's Supreme Court on Wednday led her arguments were not sufficiently nvcg to grant an lg cleared the way for the bill, one of the harsht towards the LGBTQ muny Ai, to go through a fal stage of parliamentary approval before beg signed to May, Uganda's Print Yoweri Meveni signed one of the world's tought anti-LGBTQ laws, which spelled out the ath penalty for "aggravated homosexualy"'s bill, backed by relig and tradnal lears, clus jail sentenc of up to 10 years for advotg for LGBTQ rights.
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. Supreme Court to review his se, after a lower feral urt nied him the opportuny to prent juror statements showg that homophobic prejudice played a role his ath sentence. ’” In a 2016 sworn statement, juror Franc Cersosimo reported that one juror said, “If he’s gay, we’d be sendg him where he wants to go” by sentencg Rh to life an all-male prison.
UGANDAN PRINT SIGNS ANTI-GAY LAW THAT INCLUS DEATH PENALTY AS A PUNISHMENT
” South Dakota prosecutors have asked the Supreme Court to refe to nsir the civil rights groups’ briefs, llg the feral fenrs office reprentg Rh “an extremist anizatn” and sayg the petn should “not bee a e célèbre for makg Rh of all people a false prophet of homosexual rights. ” A brief submted by seven LGBTQ rights anizatns said, “[b]ias based on sexual orientatn jury liberatns rerc historil prejudice agast lbian, gay, and bisexual people and unrm the tegry of our judicial system.
”Anti-LGBTQ e of the ath penalty me unr renewed ternatnal scty as Bnei prepar to put a new law place that would make adultery and homosexual sex punishable by ath by stong.
In an op-ed for Deadle, Clooney wrote, “every sgle time we stay at or take meetgs at or de at any of [the Sultan’s] ne hotels we are puttg money directly to the pockets of men who choose to stone and whip to ath their own cizens for beg gay or acced of adultery. Now, the Supreme Court Could Hear His Appeal., The New York Tim, April 1, 2019; Sonia Rao, Gee Clooney lls for boytt of Bnei-owned luxury hotels prott of anti-gay ath penalty, Washgton Post, March 30, 2019; Jason Lemon, BRUNEI’S NEW ANTI-LGBT LAW SLAMMED AS ‘CRUEL AND INHUMAN’ BY U. AFTER GEORGE CLOONEY CALLS FOR BOYCOTT, Newsweek, April 1, 2019; Daniel Kreps, Elton John Aligns Wh Gee Clooney’s Boytt of Bnei-Owned Hotels, Rollg Stone, March 30, 2019; Gee Clooney, Boytt Sultan Of Bnei’s Hotels Over Cel Anti-Gay Laws, Deadle, March 28, 2019.