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Nigeria: Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor 2010 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices- 04/08/11: http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2010/af/154363.htm (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Societal Abuses, Discrimination, and Acts of Violence Based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity <br><br>
Homosexual activity is illegal under federal law, and homosexual practices are punishable by prison sentences of up to 14 years. In the 12 northern states that have adopted Sharia law, adults convicted of engaging in homosexual activity may be subject to execution by stoning, although no such sentences have been imposed.<br><br>
Because of widespread taboos against homosexual activity, very few persons openly demonstrated such conduct. There were no public gay pride marches. The NGOs Global Rights and The Independent Project provided lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) groups with legal advice and training in advocacy, media responsibility, and HIV/AIDS awareness. The government or its agents did not impede the work of these groups during the year. <br><br>
No action was taken against persons who in 2008 stoned and beat members of the House of Rainbow Metropolitan Community Church, an LGBT-friendly church in Lagos. The attacks occurred after four newspapers published photographs, names, and addresses of church members. <br><br>
As of year's end the trial of 18 men, originally charged in 2008 with sodomy and subsequently charged with vagrancy, had been postponed multiple times. All defendants were able to post bail, set at 20,000 naira ($133), and were released. No resolution of the case was announced by year's end.
(PDF - 228 Kb) Document Date: 8 Apr 2011 (Downloads: 18)
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The Situation of Iranian Queer Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Turkey - By Arsham Parsi Executive Director of the IRQR With assist of Pelin Gul, the IRQR Volunteer Researcher, 10/19/11: http://www.irqr.net/English/291.htm (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
A rapid increase of number of Iranian queer asylum-seekers and refugees continues as the political situation in Iran affects more people. The hope of hundreds of Iranian queers who leave their country is to live freely and not have any problems because of their sexual orientation, gender identity and expression. Instead, they have endless legal problems in Iran as well as being subject to discrimination, intolerance and hate crime and discomfort. They feel that they are like unwanted guests ? and that feeling paves the way for a deeper humanitarian crisis. <br><br> Turkey receives the largest number of Iranian refugees of any other country, including members of Iranian queer community because it shares a border with Iran, does not require entry visas for Iranian passport holders, and is a transit route.<br><br> In addition to these general problems, Iranian queer refugees and asylum seekers face other unique restrictions. ([vi]) Hundreds of Iranian queer refugees and asylum seekers describe their major problems in Turkey as discrimination and abuse by the local people, difficulties with Turkish government authorities and problems with the UNHCR itself. For example, in the Anatolian city of Kayseri, there are Iranian queers who have been threatened with knives by the homophobic residents of refugee-populated neighbourhoods. <br><br>
The IRQR has documented numerous cases of harassment and gender-based violence directed at Iranian queer refugees and asylum seekers in Turkey.([vii]) Queer refugees also complained of insufficient police protection or neglect when they attempted to report such abuses. Human Rights Watch (HRW) stated in its recent report that ?a common issue brought up by Iranian queer refugees in Turkey was difficulties with UNHCR officers, including interviewers and interpreters tasked with performing registration and refugee status determination.
(PDF - 188 Kb) Document Date: 19 Oct 2011 (Downloads: 17)
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Indonesia's transgender couples surrounded by fear and persecution - by Kate Hodal, www.guardian.co.uk, 10/16/11: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/16/indonesia-transgender-couples-persecution/print (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"Mainly involving seemingly heterosexual couples who are later found to contain a transgender partner, the stories have flummoxed locals and officials alike. The latest report, of two women who married as a heterosexual couple but were later exposed by neighbours to be lesbians, created a stir when the local religious police threatened to behead the women and set them alight as punishment for their "embarrassing and forbidden" behaviour." [2]
(PDF - 115 Kb) Document Date: 16 Oct 2011 (Downloads: 19)
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Prisoners denied condoms because sodomy a crime - The Zimbabwe Prison Service has turned down calls for the supply of condoms to prisoners because homosexuality is illegal in Zimbabwe.- by www.thezimbabwean.co.uk on 10/14/11: http://www.thezimbabwean.co.uk/news/zimbabwe/53707/prisoners-denied-condoms-because-sodomy.html?utm_source=thezim&utm_medium=homepage&utm_campaign=listarticle&utm_content=headinglink (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
ZPS Deputy Commissioner, Agrey Huggins Machingauta, told the Parliamentary Thematic Committee on Human Rights on Thursday that calls for the distribution of condoms to prison inmates would not be heeded as sodomy was a crime. <br><br>
Giving condoms to prisoners would be tantamount to condoning, or even encouraging, homosexual behaviour, he said. But AIDS activists said ZPS officials should stop burying their heads in the sand.
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"The government gives the impression that there is no sex going on in prisons, but it is happening and no protection is used, leading to the spread of the virus,? said Mgcini Sibanda of the Zimbabwe National Network for People Living with HIV.
(PDF - 96 Kb) Document Date: 14 Oct 2011 (Downloads: 25)
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"Honor killings" target Turkey's LGBT community - By GlobalPost's Jodi Hilton, www.cbsnews.com , on 10/12/11:http://www.cbsnews.com/2102-503543_162-20119251.html?tag=contentMain;contentBody (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Ahmet's father, Yahya Yildiz, stands charged with murder after traveling 600 miles, allegedly hunting his son down and then shooting him five times on July 15, 2008. It is viewed as the country's first reported anti-gay "honor killing." And critics say that after three years, a pattern of indifference by the police in prosecuting the crime underscores the injustice.
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The long history of "honor killing" against women and girls is well documented in the Middle East and elsewhere.
<br><br> But LGBT activists in Turkey and around the world say homosexuals are now increasingly targeted. They fear that a series of attacks targeting gay and transgendered Turks is a backlash against the LGBT community's rising profile in a country where the official stance on homosexuality is that it is an "illness."
<br><br> Honor crimes against lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transsexuals are hard to document in Turkey. Human rights advocates say they are often quietly covered up by families and that police often avoid investigating such crimes. The Yildiz murder has been closely watched by activists and now a new case of "honor killing" is drawing considerable attention.
(PDF - 159 Kb) Document Date: 12 Oct 2011 (Downloads: 18)
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Guatemala: Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor 2010 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, 03/08/10: http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2010/wha/154507.htm (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Societal Abuses, Discrimination, and Acts of Violence Based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity <br><br>
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights support groups alleged that members of the police sometimes waited outside clubs and bars frequented by sexual minorities and demanded that persons engaged in commercial sexual activities provide protection money. A lack of trust in the judicial system and a fear of further persecution or social recrimination discouraged victims from filing complaints. There was general societal discrimination against LGBT persons in access to education and health care, employment, statelessness, and housing. The government undertook minimal efforts to address this discrimination.
(PDF - 222 Kb) Document Date: 8 Mar 2010 (Downloads: 16)
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La dura realidad de las transgéneros en Guatemala / The harsh reality of transgender people in Guatemala - by Carlos Rigalt C., http://www.sentidog.com/, on 02/24/11: http://www.sentidog.com/lat/2011/02/la-dura-realidad-de-las-transgeneros-en-guatemala/ (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Johana Ramirez, representante de Otrans, habla de una treintena de travestis asesinadas o desaparecidas en el país entre 2009 y 2010. <br><br>
Las personas transgénero a menudo enfrentan retos ?únicos? que las hacen sumamente vulnerables y marginadas en la sociedad, dice Otrans. Julio Coyoi, de la subdirección de rehabilitación social del Sistema Penitenciario, subraya cómo en las cárceles estas personas llegan a sufrir vejaciones que difícilmente se conocen afuera. ?Hubo un caso de una transexual que estaba asignada a una cárcel de mujeres y nadie lo sabía? u otros que, cumpliendo su condena en una cárcel de hombres, y con el afán de buscar ?protección? de parte de otros reclusos, permiten que se les abuse sexualmente. ?Es un fenómeno muy complejo, y no se puede desarrollar un programa si no se tiene una idea de cuántas? existen dentro de las cárceles. Esto se ignora actualmente, agregó. [2]
(PDF - 175 Kb) Document Date: 24 Feb 2011 (Downloads: 20)
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Zimbabwe: Mugabe wants to quiz Williams on gays, sanctions - By SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT, http://www.zimtelegraph.com, 10/12/11: http://www.zimtelegraph.com/?p=566 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Zimbabwe?s President Robert Mugabe wants the Archbishop of Canterbury
Rowan Williams to explain the Anglican church?s stance on
homosexuality and the western sanctions on him and his allies, a
spokesman said on Sunday. <br><br>
Williams may not be allowed into any Anglican facilities in Zimbabwe,
after a breakaway bishop aligned with Mugabe seized all of the
church?s property. <br><br>
?The second issue that the president wants this man of God to clarify
is why his Anglican Church thinks homosexuality is good for us and why
it should be prescribed for us.
(PDF - 53 Kb) Document Date: 12 Oct 2011 (Downloads: 16)
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Guatemala: AIDS Patients Suffer Epidemic of Discrimination By Alberto Mendoza, http://ipsnews.net, on 06/23/06: http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=33740 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
GUATEMALA CITY, Jun 23, 2006 (IPS) - Discrimination by society and employers against Guatemalans living with HIV/AIDS is deeply entrenched, say local and international non-governmental organisations (NGOs), which note that they are often deprived of their basic rights to work, education and health. <br><br>
Upon the mere suspicion that a person may be HIV-positive "they are dismissed or demoted, or their contract is not renewed, and their rights to health care and to education for their children are denied," said Cristina Calderón of the Fernando Iturbide Foundation, an NGO working in AIDS prevention.<br><br>
"Some companies force their employees to undergo HIV testing, or the company has the test done without the worker's permission," Claudia Arelí Rosales of Positive People, an NGO that defends the rights of people living with HIV/AIDS, told IPS.
(PDF - 156 Kb) Document Date: 23 Jun 2006 (Downloads: 17)
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Guatemala:2010 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor , 03/08/10: http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2010/wha/154507.htm (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Societal Abuses, Discrimination, and Acts of Violence Based on Sexual Orientation and Gender
Identity <br><br>
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights support groups alleged that members of
the police sometimes waited outside clubs and bars frequented by sexual minorities and
demanded that persons engaged in commercial sexual activities provide protection money. A lack
of trust in the judicial system and a fear of further persecution or social recrimination
discouraged victims from ?ling complaints. There was general societal discrimination against
LGBT persons in access to education and health care, employment, statelessness, and housing.
The government undertook minimal efforts to address this discrimination.
(PDF - 223 Kb) Document Date: 8 Mar 2010 (Downloads: 20)
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Iran: Human Rights Violations on the Basis of Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Homosexuality in the Islamic Republic of Iran - Submission to the 103rd Session of the Human Rights Committee (17 October- 4 November 2011) by International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) www.IGLHRC.org, and the Iranian Queer Organization (IRQO) www.IRQO.org (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Introduction <br><br>
This report is a joint submission by the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights
Commission (IGLHRC) and the Iranian Queer Organization (IRQO) to the United Nations
Human Rights Committee (?the Committee?) on the occasion of its consideration of the third
periodic report of the Government of Iran on the implementation of the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (?the Covenant?). <br><br>
The purpose of this report is to highlight the widespread and systematic human rights
violations experienced by lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people; men who
have sex with men (MSM); and women who have sex with women (WSW) in Iran despite
the country?s international obligations under the Covenant.
(PDF - 435 Kb) Document Date: 5 Oct 2011 (Downloads: 20)
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Report: How Senegalese media reports gay issues- by http://www.scribd.com, The Panos Institute West Africa in collaboration with the SAHARA Programme (Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS & Health Research Alliance), 07/20/10: http://www.scribd.com/doc/61046470/How-the-Senegalese-media-reports-on-LGBTI-issues (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
The report's summary said:<br><br>
An analysis of the print media during critical periods that witnessed the rise of homophobia in 2008-2009 highlighted the production of an image of homosexuality that was based on the following ideas:<br><br>
Homosexuality is portrayed as a new import from the West, supported by dark lobbying groups. <br>
The image of homosexuality portrayed by the media is one of an existential threat against society and its sacred foundations <br>
Resorting to violence against homosexuals is made legitimate by self-defence and "moral purification" <br>
Homosexuality is illustrated in association with the fear of AIDS.
(PDF - 467 Kb) Document Date: 20 Jul 2010 (Downloads: 28)
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Russia: 2010 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor on 03/08/10: http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2009/eur/136054.htm (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Societal Abuses, Discrimination, and Acts of Violence Based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity <br><br>
While homosexuality was decriminalized in 1993, the gay and lesbian communities continued to suffer societal stigma and discrimination. Gay rights activists asserted that the majority of gay Russians hide their orientation out of fear of losing their jobs or their homes, as well as the threat of violence. Medical practitioners reportedly continued to limit or deny gay and lesbian persons access to health services due to intolerance and prejudice. According to recent studies, gay men were refused work due to their sexuality. Openly gay men were targets for skinhead aggression; police often failed to respond out of indifference. A few gay rights organizations operated but did so out of public view.
(PDF - 243 Kb) Document Date: 8 Mar 2010 (Downloads: 33)
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Senegal: 2010 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices- Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor , on 03/08/10; http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2010/af/154366.htm (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Societal Abuses, Discrimination, and Acts of Violence Based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity <BR><BR>
Homosexual activity, which is indirectly referred to in the law as "unnatural sexual intercourse," is a criminal offense. In the recent past, gays, lesbians, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) persons have often faced criminal prosecution and widespread discrimination, social intolerance, and acts of violence.
Unlike the previous year, the media did not report acts of hatred or violence against LGBT persons. On November 30, Human Rights Watch released a report entitled Fear of Life: Violence against Gay Men and Men Perceived as Gay in Senegal. The report discussed cases of violence against gay men and the legal and cultural milieu that fosters such violence. While the cases cited in the report were from 2009 and earlier, NGO observers speculated that the drop in cases during the year was due to several factors. First, past violence against gays and lesbians may have caused many gay men in the country to go underground. Second, increased international attention may have caused the government to curtail prosecutions and other official discrimination. Finally, successful legal challenges to the law used to prosecute homosexuality may have helped curtail its use by prosecutors.
(PDF - 234 Kb) Document Date: 8 Mar 2010 (Downloads: 23)
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Video: Mexican gay activist fleeing persecution surfaces in San Diego - By Paul Canning, LGBT Asylum News, on 09/30/11: http://madikazemi.blogspot.com/2011/09/video-mexican-gay-activist-fleeing.html (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
http://www.10news.com/video/29345252/index.html <br><br> The Mexican gay activist Agustín Estrada Negrete has surfaced in San Diego, local TV news reports, and is claiming asylum. <br><br>
We reported earlier this month on how Negrete and his lawyer had faced severe persecution, rape and death threats in the state of Mexico (which surrounds Mexico City) for their activist work. <br><br>
Negrete was forced to step down from the position as director and founder of a local school, Centro de Atención Múltiple (CAM), for disabled children in 2007 due to false allegations by fellow staff against him that he had gone to the school dressed as a woman. He had in fact been pictured in newspapers at a LGBT rights march in the nearby city of Ecatepec de Morelos dressed as 'Alban' in La Cage Aux Folles.<br><br>
At a meeting with state authorities in 2009 with supportive parents, Negrete was arrested and assaulted by police. Taken to a maximum security prison, Negrete was told that ?El Gobernador del Estado México no te quiere por maricon, te vamos a desaparecer? (the Governor of the State of Mexico doesn?t like faggots, we?re going to make you disappear?). At the jail he was verbally and physically assaulted again and then sexually assaulted by men who covered their faces so as not to be identified.
(PDF - 526 Kb) Document Date: 30 Sep 2011 (Downloads: 23)
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Mexico: Iglesia y corporaciones de Seguridad propician discriminación contra homosexuales: investigador / Church and Security Corporations sponsor discrimination against homosexuals: Investigator - by Sayra Casillas Mendoza by http://www.cambiodemichoacan.com.mx, on 09/28/11: http://www.cambiodemichoacan.com.mx/vernota.php?id=159479 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Morelia, Michoacán.- En Michoacán es alta la incidencia de crímenes de
odio por homofobia. La Iglesia y las corporaciones policíacas son los
sectores que principalmente propician la discriminación contra
personas con preferencias sexuales distintas, consideró el
investigador del Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (Conacyt),
Guillermo Núñez Noriega. <br> <br>
Y es que, advirtió, la falta de una instancia especializada en este
tipo de delitos no sólo contribuye a la impunidad sino que impide
llevar un registro real de los crímenes de odio, que en la mayoría de
los casos se cometen con saña y buscan humillar a la víctima, aún
después de muerta. [1] <br> <br>
Alertó que en Michoacán, como en otros estados como Jalisco y
Veracruz, los crímenes contra homosexuales son muy altos. Prueba de
ello son las estadísticas que arrojó un estudio elaborado por la
Comisión Ciudadana contra los Crímenes de Odio por Homofobia y que
indican que entre los meses de enero y agosto de 2009 en el estado se
cometieron alrededor de 40 asesinatos, principalmente en la zona de
Tierra Caliente. [2]
(PDF - 56 Kb) Document Date: 28 Sep 2011 (Downloads: 21)
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Kenya: 2010 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor , on 03/08/10: http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2010/af/154352.htm (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
The penal code criminalizes "carnal knowledge against the order of nature," which is interpreted to prohibit homosexual activity and specifies a maximum penalty of 14 years' imprisonment. A further statute specifically criminalizes male-to-male sex and specifies a maximum penalty of 21 years' imprisonment.
(PDF - 227 Kb) Document Date: 8 Mar 2011 (Downloads: 24)
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Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor 2010 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices- on 04/11/10: http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2010/wha/154519.htm (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
There are no laws that prohibit discrimination against a person on the basis of sexual orientation. Homosexual acts for both sexes are illegal under indecency statutes, and some male homosexual acts are also illegal under anal intercourse laws. Indecency statutes carry a maximum penalty of five years, and anal intercourse carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison. Although no statistics were available, anecdotal evidence suggested there was social discrimination against lesbians, gays, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) persons in the deeply conservative society. There were few openly LGBT persons in the country.
(PDF - 222 Kb) Document Date: 8 Mar 2010 (Downloads: 24)
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Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor 2010 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices- on 04/11/10: http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2010/wha/154519.htm (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Societal Abuses, Discrimination, and Acts of Violence Based on Sexual Orientation and Gender
Identity <br>
There are no laws that prohibit discrimination against a person on the basis of sexual orientation.
Homosexual acts for both sexes are illegal under indecency statutes, and some male homosexual
acts are also illegal under anal intercourse laws. Indecency statutes carry a maximum penalty of
?ve years, and anal intercourse carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison. Although no
statistics were available, anecdotal evidence suggested there was social discrimination against
lesbians, gays, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) persons in the deeply conservative society.
There were few openly LGBT persons in the country.
(PDF - 221 Kb) Document Date: 8 Mar 2010 (Downloads: 28)
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IRAN SUBMISSION TO THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE FOR THE 103RD SESSION OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE (17 OCTOBER ? 4 NOVEMBER 2011)- by Iran team at Amnesty International on 09/21/11: http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/MDE13/081/2011/en (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
DISCRIMINATION AGAINST LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND
TRANSGENDER INDIVIDUALS IN LAW AND PRACTICE
(QUESTION 5) page 15 <br>
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) individuals face harassment and persecution,
cruel punishment of flogging or even the death penalty for same-sex sexual activities. Same-
sex sexual activities are prohibited for both men and women under the Hodoud section of the
Penal Code. LGBT individuals also face hostility from a society which is intolerant of sexual
identities other than heterosexuality. <br> <br>
According to Articles 110 and 111 of the Iranian Penal Code, penetrative ?sodomy? is
punishable by death, although the method of execution is at the discretion of the judge.
Non-penetrative sexual acts carry penalties of between 60 to 100 lashes, although if one of
the two men is a non-Muslim and is deemed the active party, he could face execution
(Articles 121, 123 and 124 of the Penal Code). Non-penetrative acts which are repeated on
four occasions, having been punished on each occasion, will be subject to the death penalty
on the fourth occasion (Article 122). [15] <br> <br>
?Lesbianism? (sex between women with their sexual organs) is punishable by 100 lashes, or,
on the fourth conviction, with execution (Articles 129 and 131). If two women ?lie under the
same cover without necessity? they will receive less than 100 lashes, and on the fourth
occasion, 100 lashes (Article 134). <br> <br>
The LGBT community face harassment and arrest, as well as unwarranted interference in
their private lives. [16]
(PDF - 457 Kb) Document Date: 21 Sep 2011 (Downloads: 22)
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