Atralian man sentenced to 9 years prison for gay California man’s 1988 manslghter

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• GAY IRANIAN MAN ALLEGEDLY KILLED BY FAY DAYS BEFORE SEEKG ASYLUM
• SYRIAN MAN, 20, SENTENCED TO LIFE FOR FATAL ATTACK ON GAY UPLE GERMANY
• A GAY MAN WAS SENTENCED TO DIE BEE JURORS THOUGHT HE'D ENJOY MEN'S PRISON TOO MUCH. SCOTUS IS HIS LAST HOPE | OPN
• THREE MEN SENTENCED TO ATH BY STONG FOR BEG GAY NIGERIA
• HE KILLED A GAY MAN BY PUNCHG HIM OFF A CLIFF, TOOK 35 YEARS FOR VICTIM'S FAY TO GET JTICE
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• NSW POLICE LOSE URT BID TO EXCLU STT JOHNSON KILLG OM GAY HATE QUIRY
• ATRALIAN MAN SENTENCED TO 9 YEARS PRISON FOR GAY AMERIN’S 1988 MANSLGHTER
• A GAY MAN WAS SENTENCED TO DIE BY A JURY TATED WH ANTIGAY BIAS.
• GAY MAN SENTENCED TO DIE...

GAY IRANIAN MAN ALLEGEDLY KILLED BY FAY DAYS BEFORE SEEKG ASYLUM

Alireza Monfared, a 20-year-old who was gay, was allegedly killed by fay members, jt days before he uld leave Iran to seek asylum, acrdg to multiple of his early May ath ma headl the U.

SYRIAN MAN, 20, SENTENCED TO LIFE FOR FATAL ATTACK ON GAY UPLE GERMANY

"I believe the exact term for this horrendo murr is gay-killg rather than the general term of honor-killg, " Ma Khani, an Iranian LGBTQ and women's rights activist based Germany, told ABC News.

A GAY MAN WAS SENTENCED TO DIE BEE JURORS THOUGHT HE'D ENJOY MEN'S PRISON TOO MUCH. SCOTUS IS HIS LAST HOPE | OPN

"Of urse the motive of such murrs by fay members is to fend the 'honor' of the tribe or fay, but we should never fet the social stigma and hatred nstantly reproduced by the social and legal nstcts agast LGBTQ members, " she this area of the world face enormo dangers for beg openly gay.

THREE MEN SENTENCED TO ATH BY STONG FOR BEG GAY NIGERIA

Acrdg to Human Rights Watch, nearly 15 untri the Middle East and Northern Ai crimalize homosexualy, leadg to punishments that clu prison, lash and even the ath penalty.

But 's people their lol villag and muni that have many gay dividuals sred. A woman monstrat agast the suatn Iran durg the Christopher Street Day gay pri para Berl on June 19, 2010. Iranian law stat that men over the age of 18 need to serve the ary before they may leave the untry, but homosexualy is classified unr "psychologil disorrs, " which n lead to an exemptn om service.

HE KILLED A GAY MAN BY PUNCHG HIM OFF A CLIFF, TOOK 35 YEARS FOR VICTIM'S FAY TO GET JTICE

We are still aaid of the regime makg a database of gay and transgenr people and puttg them unr prsure whenever they want, " Shadi Am, an LGBTQ activist based Germany, told ABC ia of receivg an exemptn rd is leavg many gay and trans Iranians worried they'd be brand and vulnerable to harassment and discrimatn. "It n be an immediate threat to gay men who receive this rd, " Am said. "People hold banners prottg agast discrimatn and persecutn agast homosexuals Iran, July 28, 2007, ont of the Eiffel tower Meda/AFP via Getty Imag, File Mahdi, a 36-year-old Iranian gay man who did not want to e his full name over safety ncerns, told ABC News that hearg the news of Monfared's murr broke his heart.

"My own boyiend was already hant to e gay people's ary exemptn. "Bis the immediate threat that many gay exempts face now, such way of verage and the prsure om outsi of the untry is not likely to have any impact on the illogil and nservative officials Iran, " he said. A young Syrian refugee was sentenced to life prison Friday for a homophobic attack agast a gay uple Germany last year that left one man nvicted 21-year-old, intified only as Abdullah A as part of the untry’s privacy regulatns, killed a 55-year-old man the Oct.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

Is a refugee om Syria whom thori acce of beg a member of the Islamic State and of havg attacked a gay uple wh a knife Drn last October, killg one of them men and serly jurg the other. (Photo by Filip Sger-Pool/GEtty Imag) (FILIP SINGER POOL/Getty Imag)The men, who were om the North Rhe-Wtphalia state, had traveled about 300 east to vis Drn, and after havg dner at a rtrant the central part of the cy, were attacked by the Aleppo-born assailant, who told a urt expert he regard their homosexualy a “ser s” and wanted to punish the uple by killg them, acrdg to fatal knife attack occurred the days after Abdullah, who entered the untry as a mor 2015, was released om prison last September, where he’d been servg a sentence for dispensg Islamic State propaganda, acrdg to dpa. Rh to ath "knew that he was a homosexual and thought he shouldn't be able to spend his life wh men prison" and thought that "if he's gay, we'd be sendg him where he wants to go if we voted for [life prison].

If our legal system allows anti-gay bias jury liberatns, the tegry of our entire urt system is unrmed. When is applied a biased manner, urts should take every possible opportuny to rrect that is a long, paful history of formal discrimatn agast lbian, gay, and bisexual people that ntu spe huge advancements the law and society.

NSW POLICE LOSE URT BID TO EXCLU STT JOHNSON KILLG OM GAY HATE QUIRY

Rh has been on ath row, the Supreme Court has regnized that laws based on moral objectns agast lbian, gay, and bisexual people and that laws crimalizg them are unnstutnal. Dpe the Court's lgs, discrimatn and prejudice agast lbian, gay, and bisexual people rema, even the legal prevalence and persistence of discrimatn agast lbian, gay, and bisexual people illtrate the need for safeguards our legal system cludg jury liberatns to ensure fairns.

Too often, jurors wh bias agast lbian, gay, and bisexual people serve simply bee a judge do not allow qutng, or believ that the juror n be impartial if they agree to set bias urge the Supreme Court to take up Mr.

ATRALIAN MAN SENTENCED TO 9 YEARS PRISON FOR GAY AMERIN’S 1988 MANSLGHTER

Richard Saenz is a Senr Attorney and the Crimal Jtice and Police Misnduct Strategist at Lambda Legal, the olst and largt natnal legal anizatn mted to achievg full regnn of the civil rights of lbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgenr people and those livg wh views exprsed this article are the thor's own. An Islamic sharia urt has orred the ath of three gay men Nigeria.

An Islamic sharia urt Nigeria has sentenced three gay men to ath by stong – cludg a man who was 70 years old. A Ngi urt the northern state of Bchi nvicted the men of engagg homosexualy, the state’s relig police force, the Hisbah Vanguard, said 1 July.

In Nigeria, eply homophobic laws make the liv of LGBTQ+ Nigerians a daily stggle.

A GAY MAN WAS SENTENCED TO DIE BY A JURY TATED WH ANTIGAY BIAS.

Many feel unable to e out, wh ne 10 Nigerians viewg homosexualy as somethg society should not accept, acrdg to a 2019 Pew Rearch Center poll. Homosexualy is illegal all of Nigeria, regardls of whether the state has adopted sharia law or not. SYDNEY — An Atralian man who admted killg a gay Amerin by punchg him off a cliff top Sydney 1988 was sentenced on Thursday to ne years prison, endg the victim’s fay’s 35-year battle for jtice.

A send roner’s quiry 2012 uld not expla the ath and a third quiry led 2017 that Stt Johnson had been attacked by an unknown assailant or assailants bee he was perceived to be homosexual. Steve Johnson’s mpaign for his brother helped trigger a state ernment quiry to historic police difference toward gay hate crim and more than 100 unsolved aths om the mid-1980s until the early 1990s. 10, 1988, Whe met Johnson at a pub and the pair went for a walk around North Head, which was known at the time to be a popular area among gay people.

The ath was origally thought to be a suici, but police eventually opened an vtigatn to what they spected was a gay hate crime 2012. Beech-Jon said he uld not be satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that the ath was a “gay hate crime. Michael Sam beme the first openly gay player to be drafted when the then-St.

GAY MAN SENTENCED TO DIE...

A bid by New South Wal police to exclu a high-profile killg om a gay hate quiry has been ath of US mathematician Stt Johnson is one of dozens of s unr the spotlight at a special missn of quiry to spected gay hate crim Sydney between 1970 and 27-year-old died after he was punched at a gay beat on Sydney’s northern beach. A 2017 qut termed his ath was a homici, wh fdgs that he “died as a rult of a gay hate attack” viewed by some police as a “feat”. In the latt velopment, Stt Phillip Whe plead guilty to throwg the punch that ultimately ed Johnson to fall to his month, jtice Robert Beech-Jon dismissed “what appears to be an absurd suggtn [by police] that Dr Johnson killed himself” when sentencg Whe to ne years past newsletter promotnafter newsletter promotnNSW police had argued Johnson’s ath was outsi the current quiry’s terms of reference on the basis the matter was not unsolved, the man rponsible for his ath intified as gay and a sentencg judge did not fd the ath to be motivated by gay the quiry’s missner, jtice John Sackar, on Tuday led s terms of reference were much wir and answers to qutns such as how and why Johnson died were still not urt did not make a fdg beyond reasonable doubt that Whe was motivated by gay hate, but did not le out the possibily, he is due to hand down his fal report next month.

SYDNEY — An Atralian man who admted killg a gay Amerin by punchg him off a cliff top Sydney 1988 was sentenced on Thursday to ne years prison, endg the victim’s fay’s 35-year battle for Phillip Whe, 52, had plead guilty the New South Wal state Supreme Court to Los Angel-born Stt Johnson’s had plead guilty last year to the then-27-year-old’s murr — a greater crime — and had been sentenced to more than 12 years prison. “That was a break the se, ” Steve Johnson Johnson’s mpaign for his brother helped trigger a state ernment quiry to historic police difference toward gay hate crim and more than 100 unsolved aths om the mid-1980s until the early Chief Inspector Peter Yeomans ngratulated Steve Johnson, whom he nsirs a “good iend, ” on his mpaign.