Source: ugurhan / Getty Imag Yemen Yemen follows Sharia law, unr which homosexualy is illegal. 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. Gay women are to be imprsned for up to three years. Source: BalkansCat […]
Contents:
- 13 UNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS LEGALLY PUNISHABLE BY ATH
- MORE THAN 2.7 BILLN PEOPLE LIVE UNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS A CRIME
- MAP SHOWS WHERE IT’S ILLEGAL TO BE GAY – 30 YEARS SCE WHO DECLASSIFIED HOMOSEXUALY AS DISEASE
- COUNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS LEGALLY PUNISHABLE BY DEATH
- GAY RIGHTS AROUND THE WORLD: THE BT AND WORST UNTRI FOR EQUALY
- 31 COUNTRI THAT ALLOW SAME-SEX MARRIAGE (+ 12 WHERE BEG GAY CARRI THE DEATH PENALTY)
13 UNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS LEGALLY PUNISHABLE BY ATH
New rearch lays bare discrimatn faced by gay people – not a sgle untry do they enjoy equal rights as heterosexuals * countries where gay marriage is punishable by death *
After several weeks of fierce nmnatn by world lears, the sultanate announced wouldn’t enforce the ath penalty for people engagg homosexual acts.
MORE THAN 2.7 BILLN PEOPLE LIVE UNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS A CRIME
<p><strong>Eme Saner: </strong>Equal marriage laws are beg passed several untri, but Rsia, life grows harsher each month for LGBT people. Which plac are bt and worst for gay rights?</p> * countries where gay marriage is punishable by death *
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.
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.
MAP SHOWS WHERE IT’S ILLEGAL TO BE GAY – 30 YEARS SCE WHO DECLASSIFIED HOMOSEXUALY AS DISEASE
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.
COUNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS LEGALLY PUNISHABLE BY DEATH
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. 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.
GAY RIGHTS AROUND THE WORLD: THE BT AND WORST UNTRI FOR EQUALY
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. 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.
31 COUNTRI THAT ALLOW SAME-SEX MARRIAGE (+ 12 WHERE BEG GAY CARRI THE DEATH PENALTY)
In the wake of Ameri's adlit mass shootg ever — at a gay nightclub Orlando on Sunday — we have updated our map of LGBT rights around the over the untri below to see which tegory each falls the map, we take a closer look at the 10 untri which homosexualy n be punishable by ath.
In others that we haven't clud, non-state actors who ntrol swaths of land eher summarily execute or sentence homosexuals to are the 10 untri where homosexualy may be punishable by ath:Yemen: Acrdg to the 1994 penal , married men n be sentenced to ath by stong for homosexual terurse. Women face up to seven years In acrdance wh sharia law, homosexual terurse between men n be punished by ath, and men n be flogged for lser acts such as kissg.