DUBAI, Uned Arab Emirat (AP) — Iran has executed two gay men who were nvicted on charg of sodomy and spent six years on ath row, a rights group reported.
Contents:
- THE 6 COUNTRI EXECUTE PEOPLE FOR BEG GAY
- 13 UNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS LEGALLY PUNISHABLE BY ATH
- BNEI STONG: WHICH PLAC HAVE THE ATH PENALTY FOR GAY SEX?
- THE 11 UNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS PUNISHABLE BY ATH ARE ALL MAJORY-MLIM
- HERE ARE THE 11 UNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS PUNISHABLE BY ATH
- TRAVEL SAFETY REPORT: 20 WORST PLAC FOR GAY TRAVELERS IN 2021
- RIGHTS GROUP: IRAN EXECUT 2 GAY MEN OVER SODOMY CHARG
THE 6 COUNTRI EXECUTE PEOPLE FOR BEG GAY
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They had nsensual the Aceh provce of Indonia, homosexualy is a crime that n be punished this btal and gradg More: Disturbg Details of Executns Emerge From Chechnya's 'Gay Torture Camps': ReportEverywhere the world, LGBTQ people are routely harassed, discrimated agast, beaten, and even murred for simply beg who they are. Half of the untri never follow through on this absolute threat, but e other methods to strip a person of are the six untri that actually kill people for engagg homosexual acts.
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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.
13 UNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS LEGALLY PUNISHABLE BY ATH
The LGBTQ+ Travel Safety Inx ranks the world’s most dangero untri for gay travelers 2021. * countries that execute gays *
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.
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. 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 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.
BNEI STONG: WHICH PLAC HAVE THE ATH PENALTY FOR GAY SEX?
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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".
THE 11 UNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS PUNISHABLE BY ATH ARE ALL MAJORY-MLIM
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.
HERE ARE THE 11 UNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS PUNISHABLE BY ATH
"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.
The Qur’an ntas numero nmnatns of homosexual activy: “And Lot when he said to his people, ‘Do you m such immoraly as no one has preced you wh om among the worlds? When AFDI ran ads highlightg the mistreatment of gays Islamic law, the San Francis Board of Supervisors issued a rolutn nmng not that mistreatment, but our ads. 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.
TRAVEL SAFETY REPORT: 20 WORST PLAC FOR GAY TRAVELERS IN 2021
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. 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.
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. As of 2022, six untri' legal s specifilly prcribe the ath penalty for the "crime" of homosexualy and another five untri allow for the possibily of the ath penalty. LGBT and LGBTQ+ have several addnal variatns, cludg LGBTQ, LGBTQIA, LGBTQIA+, and 2SLGBTQIA+ (Two-spir, lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, qutng, tersex, and asexual, wh the + reprentg pansexual, agenr, genr queer, bigenr, genr variant, and pangenr).
Two of the most notable advancements LGBTQI+ rights the US recent s are the legalizatn of gay marriage and the legalizatn of adoptn of children by same-sex upl. Gay marriage legalizatn expand om one state 2004 to all fifty stat 2015 through feral urt lgs, state urt lgs, state legislatn, and direct popular vot.
RIGHTS GROUP: IRAN EXECUT 2 GAY MEN OVER SODOMY CHARG
Acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn's annual report State-Sponsored Homophobia, same-sex nduct was crimalized 67 of the Uned Natns' 193 member stat 2020 and was facto illegal two more.