UN Free & Equal | THE DEATH PENALTY FOR BEING GAY?

Contents:

• 13 UNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS LEGALLY PUNISHABLE BY ATH
• HERE ARE THE 11 UNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS PUNISHABLE BY ATH
• HOMOSEXUALY: THE UNTRI WHERE IS ILLEGAL TO BE GAY
• BNEI STONG: WHICH PLAC HAVE THE ATH PENALTY FOR GAY SEX?
• THE DEATH PENALTY FOR BEING GAY?
• WHICH UNTRI IMPOSE THE ATH PENALTY ON GAY PEOPLE?
• UGANDAN PRINT SIGNS ANTI-GAY LAW THAT INCLUS DEATH PENALTY AS A PUNISHMENT
• MAP SHOWS WHERE IT’S ILLEGAL TO BE GAY – 30 YEARS SCE WHO DECLASSIFIED HOMOSEXUALY AS DISEASE
• COUNTRI AROUND THE WORLD WHERE THE PENALTY FOR BEG GAY IS ATH

13 UNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS LEGALLY PUNISHABLE BY ATH

After several weeks of fierce nmnatn by world lears, the sultanate announced wouldn’t enforce the ath penalty for people engagg homosexual acts. 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.

HERE ARE THE 11 UNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS PUNISHABLE BY ATH

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. 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.

HOMOSEXUALY: THE UNTRI WHERE IS ILLEGAL TO BE GAY

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.

BNEI STONG: WHICH PLAC HAVE THE ATH PENALTY FOR GAY SEX?

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.

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 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. 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.

WHICH UNTRI IMPOSE THE ATH PENALTY ON GAY PEOPLE?

At least 73 untri have laws that crimalize same-sex massacre at a gay nightclub Orlando ma clear: Basic legal rights are no guarantee of safety.

UGANDAN PRINT SIGNS ANTI-GAY LAW THAT INCLUS DEATH PENALTY AS A PUNISHMENT

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.

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.

MAP SHOWS WHERE IT’S ILLEGAL TO BE GAY – 30 YEARS SCE WHO DECLASSIFIED HOMOSEXUALY AS DISEASE

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.

COUNTRI AROUND THE WORLD WHERE THE PENALTY FOR BEG GAY IS ATH

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. 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".

Although several Mlim natns rporate Sharia law their legal systems, only a small number rry out harsh punishment for homosexualy. The penal the untry stipulat imprisonment for homosexualy, but the Islamic urts the southern regn impose strict sharia law which allows the ath penalty. While homosexualy is legal most of the world, the acceptance and equaly of the LGBT muny is not universal, and there are still great stris to be ma.