Iran, Yemen among untri where beg gay is punishable by ath

Contents:

• GAY MAN FOUND AD ON HIS 22ND BIRTHDAY IS SOUTH AI’S 4TH LGBTQ PERSON KILLED A MONTH; SPECT, 17, ARRTED
• SERIAL KILLER WHO PREYED ON GAY MEN, WAS DUBBED 'I-95 KILLER' IS EXECUTED FLORIDA
• GAY MAN KILLED, ANOTHER CRILLY JURED GRDR MEETUP
• NYPD IS VTIGATG A STRG OF ASSLTS POTENTIALLY LKED TO ATHS OF 2 GAY MEN
• KENYAN GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST IS KILLED
• GAY IRANIAN MAN AD ALLEGED 'HONOR KILLG,' RIGHTS GROUP SAYS
• ‘EPIMIC OF VLENCE’: BRAZIL SHOCKED BY ‘BARBARIC’ GANG-RAPE OF GAY MAN
• 13 UNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS LEGALLY PUNISHABLE BY ATH
• GAY MAN TORTURED AND KILLED CANCúN AFTER REVEALG HE WAS LIVG WH HIV
• HERE IS VIO OF ANOTHER UGANDAN GAY MAN KILLED.

GAY MAN FOUND AD ON HIS 22ND BIRTHDAY IS SOUTH AI’S 4TH LGBTQ PERSON KILLED A MONTH; SPECT, 17, ARRTED

A man acced of beg gay, Aknifi Olumi Olubunmi, was allegedly mobbed Ondo State on Febary 17, 2016. A Facebook er, who go by the name Ogbeni A Omo A explas the cint that led to Aknifi’s ath: In a post tled ‘End of a gay’, he said:. There is no provisn the law, prcribg that people should be killed for beg gay.

A gay man South Ai was found ad on Sunday what’s believed to be the fourth LGBTQ killg ls than a month, acrdg to lol media Gay and Lbian Alliance of South Ai said a statement that Lonwabo Jack was on his way home om celebratg his 22nd birthday when he was raped and murred his Wtern Cape victim was “found wh a stab wound to the cht, ” acrdg to police. News about the btal killg jt weeks after at least three other openly gay men were tragic killed South Ai. Earlier this month, the body of Andile “Lulu” Ntuthela, a 40-year-old gay man, was disvered a shallow grave near his alleged killer’s ont door Eastern Cape, a provce the untry’s southeast before that, the body of Sphamandla Khoza, 34, was found a dch near his home.

SERIAL KILLER WHO PREYED ON GAY MEN, WAS DUBBED 'I-95 KILLER' IS EXECUTED FLORIDA

Solis wasn’t there but said people who were told her a man began harassg one of Smh’s iends and tossed homophobic slurs, acrdg to The Oregonian. — Gary Ray Bowl, a serial killer who preyed on olr gay men durg an eight-month spree that left six ad, was executed by lethal jectn Thursday at Florida State sentence was rried out at 10:58 p. Invtigators say Bowl survived by lettg gay men perform sex acts on him for money, though he has said he was straight.

"I had a qutn about him beg gay.

GAY MAN KILLED, ANOTHER CRILLY JURED GRDR MEETUP

A Detro man has been charged an attempted robbery and shootg that left one gay man ad and another crilly jured. The cint is the latt a strg of attacks agast gay men targeted through a popular LGBTQ datg app. "The allegatns are that social media ntacts were ed to target, ntact, rob, fatally shoot one gay man and serly wound another gay man, " Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy said a statement.

NYPD IS VTIGATG A STRG OF ASSLTS POTENTIALLY LKED TO ATHS OF 2 GAY MEN

”Gay men are routely targeted on datg apps like Grdr, where privacy and safety ncerns abound. In May of this year, two Dallas men were charged by a feral grand jury wh "nspiracy to m hate crim, kidnappg and rjackg" after lurg ne gay men through the popular app to an apartment plex and subsequently kidnappg, sexually assltg and robbg them.

"The dictment further alleg that Jenks and Henry ed bodily jury to four victims bee of their actual and perceived sexual orientatn, " a Jtice Department statement year, followg a siar cint, thori charged four men wh feral hate crim for a seri of North Texas asslts and robberi after they posed as gay and manipulated victims to divulgg their home addrs via the app 2017. The men, whose ag ranged om 19 to 21, were sentenced to between 10 and 20 years prison for breakg to victims' hom, tyg them up wh tape, physilly assltg them and yellg gay slurs at them.

KENYAN GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST IS KILLED

Perhaps one of the most well-known gay datg-app predators is Stephen Port — a man dubbed "The Grdr Killer" — who was sentenced to life prison 2016 for dggg, rapg and killg four men he met through the app. "This is why we see a rise hate crim durg Pri Month and creas of hate crim 'gay-iendly' neighborhoods, " Coston said.

“There are people impersonatg romantic partners and iends untri where beg gay is illegal, then threateng to out the er, ” said Ian Holloway, an assistant profsor of social welfare the Universy of California, Los Angel, Lk School of Public 2018, there were wispread reports of Egyptian thori and rints who ed gay datg apps to entrap and persecute gay men.

"For people livg the areas or untri where homosexualy is crimalized, apps n be a way to build muny. The New York Cy Police Department nfirmed Monday that is vtigatg a strg of robberi and asslts that may be nnected to the aths of two gay men earlier this year shortly after they left gay bars Manhattan's Hell's Kchen neighborhood. His fay prevly told NBC News that approximately $20, 000 had been draed om his bank acunts and that they believed he was Umberger and Jul Ramirez were dgged and killed separate cints followg viss to New York Cy gay Clary / Fay photoAbout a month later, Umberger, a 33-year-old polil nsultant, was found ad after he and two unintified men left another popular Hell's Kchen gay bar, the Q.

GAY IRANIAN MAN AD ALLEGED 'HONOR KILLG,' RIGHTS GROUP SAYS

PREVIOUS REPORT: 'I'll never get my baby back': Fay of woman killed crash on North Freeway angry over lossHoton police said Sarah Gay was toxited when she drove northbound the southbound lan of the I-45 North Freeway near the Whe Oak ex and h two rs. Ai|Kenyan Gay Rights Activist Is Killed ADVERTISEMENTEdw Chiloba’s body was dumped on the roadsi by a movg vehicle the untry’s wt. Police have arrted his iend and are pursug two others the Leteipa/Associated PrsNAIROBI, Kenya — A gay activist and fashn signer was murred and his body found stuffed si a metal box Kenya, the police said on Friday, another episo that raised qutns about dangers and discrimatn faced by gay people across the East Ain Chiloba’s body was found the box after was dropped by the si of the road om a movg vehicle wh no license plate Uas Gishu unty the untry’s wt.

The pennt Kenya Human Rights Commissn lled his killg “reprehensible” and “eply unjt” and said was worried about the latg vlence targetg gay Kenyans. “This is a ighteng crime but ’s beg mon Kenya — evince of a growg epimic of vlence the untry, ” the anizatn said a is not illegal to intify as a homosexual Kenya, a lonial-era law crimaliz nsensual gay sex as “agast the orr of nature, ” wh those ught facg up to 14 years prison.

Arrts and prosecutn unr the laws are rare, but activists say they enable homophobia, and expose members of L. Chiloba was a fashn signer and mol who often spoke up about gay rights, and how clivy and diversy were at the heart of his brand. Ali Fazeli Monfared, a 20-year-old gay Iranian man, was allegedly killed an “honor killg” by some of his male fay members after they found out he was gay, acrdg to an LGBTQ rights group Iran and Monfared, who was known as Alireza by iends and fay, lived a cy southwt Iran.

‘EPIMIC OF VLENCE’: BRAZIL SHOCKED BY ‘BARBARIC’ GANG-RAPE OF GAY MAN

He had applied for an exemptn om pulsory ary service so he uld leave the untry and move to Turkey to live wh his close iend, Aghil Bayat, acrdg to 6Rang, the Iranian Lbian and Transgenr homosexual nduct is crimalized Iran, part of the ary exemptn law allows gay and transgenr people to receive a medil exemptn om service for their inty. The law stat, part, “a person n be eed om his ary service duti, if he is ‘mentally ill’ (homosexual).

13 UNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS LEGALLY PUNISHABLE BY ATH

”Fazeli Monfared received an exemptn rd the mail om the Islamic Revolutnary Guard Corps after disclosg his homosexualy, but one of his male relativ found and disvered he was gay, acrdg to 6Rang. The rd, and the exemptn for homosexualy as a disease, put Fazeli Monfared danger, she said.

“We thk that bee of his genr exprsn and his behavrs, they knew that he is homosexual, but was proof that shows he wants to leave the untry, and he is a gay man, ” Am said. She add that though Iran crimaliz homosexual nduct, isn’t illegal to be gay. If Fazeli Monfared’s alleged killers had ught him havg sex wh a man, then they might receive lser punishments for his is one of an timated 11 untri where same-sex sexual acts are punishable by ath, acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, and one of almost 70 untri where is crimalized, acrdg to Human Rights Watch, an ternatnal human rights group based New York.

In Iran, punishments for homosexual nduct range om 31 to 100 lash to ath, acrdg to Human Rights Watch. Iranian Foreign Mister Mohammad Javad Zarif fend the untry’s ath penalty punishment for homosexual nduct durg a prs nference June 2019.

GAY MAN TORTURED AND KILLED CANCúN AFTER REVEALG HE WAS LIVG WH HIV

"The are moral prcipl regardg the behavr of people general, ” he said at the time, acrdg to German broadster Dtsche are no statistics or rerds of the number of anti-LGBTQ “honor killgs” — which are perpetrated by relativ who feel the LGBTQ person has brought “dishonor” to the fay — that happen Iran or other untri that crimalize homosexualy, Tara Sepehri Far, who vtigat human rights ab Iran and Kuwa for Human Rights Watch, told NBC said Fazeli Monfared’s se highlights the importance of the role of the fay LGBTQ people’s liv when the state crimaliz who they are.

“Exposg that to the very same thori who, theory, have the thory to arrt and prosecute you is very risky, ” she said other untri should prsure Iran to remove the law crimalizg homosexualy and the ath penalty “bee this is the reason why the fai, they allow themselv to have the right to vlate their children.

An act of “barbaric” vlence where a 22-year-old gay man was gang-raped and tortured has prompted fierce reactn Brazil and is evince of a growg ti of hate crime the untry, acrdg to human rights man, who has not been named, was attacked last week Florianópolis by three armed men who ed sharp objects durg the asslt and forced him to rve homophobic slurs to his legs, said attackers left him the street where he was found and taken to hospal.

HERE IS VIO OF ANOTHER UGANDAN GAY MAN KILLED.

“This is a ighteng crime but ’s very mon Brazil, and vlence – not only agast lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people but also women, black people and immigrants – is worseng, ” said Liro Ávila, print of the Associatn Defence of Human Rights, an anisatn that helps victims of vlence Florianópolis.

She said opn had been divid, wh some people shocked by the se while others jtified , sayg the man was gay. ”In 2020, 237 LGBT people died suatns of vlence; there were 224 murrs and 13 suicis, acrdg to Gpo Gay da Bahia, the olst LGBT rights anisatn Lat Ameri. Print Jair Bolsonaro has a long history of LGBT-phobic and misogynistic ments, cludg sayg that he is a “proud homophobe”.

”There have been other homophobic attacks the untry where objects have been ed on the victim. Prof Luiz Mott, a gay rights activist and founr of Gpo Gay da Bahia, ced the se of 17-year-old Wner Oliveira who died after attackers phed a prsed air hose om a r wash si him. “A ser problem relatn to homophobic and transphobic crim is impuny, ” he said.