Homophobia

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• India: Supreme Court decides to review anti gay famous Section 377
  9 January 2018, by siawi3

  SC justice Chandrachud provided a ray of hope when he left a backdoor to possible reforms by way of mentioning privacy in the context of the LGBT community in the landmark privacy judgment of August 2017.

• Tanzania: Arrests of human rights defenders, lawyers and their clients for ’promoting homosexuality’
  20 October 2017, by siawi3

  The Regional Commissioner of police issued a press statement, referring to the “arrests” and stated that twelve people who were promoting homosexuality had been arrested. This mischaracterisation of a legal consultation where lawyers and their clients were discussing a very specific case to be referred to the court is unfortunate. The police had a copy of the concept note and the agenda of the consultation. Three lawyers were part of the group

• Russia: LGBT activists detained in Moscow while petitioning against Chechen purge
  23 May 2017, by siawi3

  Five people detained as they tried to submit a petition calling for an inquiry into a violent crackdown on gay people in the southern Russian republic. Chechnya’s strongman leader Ramzan Kadyrov has dismissed reports of an anti-gay purge. His spokesman has suggested that there are “no gay people” in Chechnya, and that if there were their relatives would kill them.

• L’enfer des gays en Tchétchénie
  23 mai 2017, par siawi3

  Les autorités tchétchènes ont lancé une violente campagne de répression des homosexuels. « Ils disent aux parents de tuer leur enfant. Ils disent : ‘Soit vous le faites, soit nous nous en chargeons.’ Ça s’appelle : ‘laver l’honneur par le sang’. » Leur situation empire de jour en jour car ils sont toujours dans l’attente de visas pour quitter le pays. Des unités des forces tchétchènes sont lancés à leur poursuite jusqu’à Moscou donc ils sont en sursis. Les ambassades exigent des listes de documents sans fin et ils sont psychologiquement à bout. Il faudrait vraiment que les gouvernements occidentaux se bougent afin de leur permettre de quitter la Russie au plus vite et sauver leur vie.

• Two men caned 83 times in Indonesia for homosexual sex
  23 May 2017, by siawi3

  Hundreds of people turned out to see the public punishment, held at a mosque in Banda Aceh, the capital of Aceh province, filming the caning on their phone cameras.

• UK: Guilty of ’sodomy’: London Bridge attacker had ties to ’death to gays’ preachers
  30 September 2018, by siawi3

  One of the attackers, Khuram Butt, was known to police as an associate of banned extremist group al-Muhajiroun. The group’s leader is extremist preacher Anjem Choudary who has called for gay people to be stoned to death under Sharia law, which he said should be implemented worldwide.

• USA: The Christian Right is Looking to Putin’s Russia to Save Christianity From the Godless West
  5 October 2018, by siawi3

  Why is the US Christian nationalist right looking to Russia? The thought shatters old notions as odd indeed. It’s supposed to be the left that’s cozy with Russia. Since 1990 it’s a new world.

• Egypt: New anti-gay draft law
  28 October 2017, by siawi3

  Amid the continuing moral panic over homosexuality in Egypt, a draft law submitted to parliament proposes not only to criminalise gay sex but also to ban rainbow flags and outlaw almost any kind of social activity involving gay people. It was presented by an MP who belongs to the supposedly liberal Free Egyptians Party. The current furore began last month when several fans at a music concert waved rainbow flags and the authorities responded by arresting dozens of people.

• Ile Maurice : il est « immoral » que les autorités soutiennent la communauté LGBTQ, « groupe malpropre »
  7 juin 2018, par siawi3

  Comme les images tournées sur place par l’Amicale des jeunes du refuge - une association de lutte contre l’homophobie - l’ont montré, c’est bien devant le cri très net de « Allah akbar ! », proféré par des militants ne cachant aucunement leur appartenance idéologique à un islam rétrograde, que les organisateurs de l’événement et la police ont dû reculer, et annuler la manifestation qui avait pourtant été autorisée par le gouvernement. Affirmant ne pas être un djihadiste, il déclare cependant être un « fervent supporter » d’un Etat islamique et considère qu’une telle organisation est « le seul Etat capable » d’assurer une existence décente aux musulmans, vivant « plus bas que les animaux » dans les sociétés laïques...

• UK: Call to ban Islamist cleric who endorses killings of gays
  6 October 2016, by siawi3

  “In a free society, Hamza Sodagar has a right to believe that homosexuality is sinful but not to preach about ways to kill lesbians and gay men. Calling for death to LGBT people crosses a red line. The Home Office was wrong to grant him a visa and should now revoke it. The cleric should be ordered out of the country,”

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