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Dubai Detains Foreigners Accused Of Being Gay - by www.huffingtonpost.com on 07/27/08: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/17/dubai-detains-foreigners_n_113443.html (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"DUBAI, United Arab Emirates ? Police in the Gulf tourist hub of Dubai say they've detained 17 foreign men for allegedly being gay and wearing women's clothing in malls and other public places." <br><br>
"Police spokesman Zuhair Horoun says the men were either visiting or working in Dubai. He says they were detained Wednesday but would not elaborate."
(PDF - 122 Kb) Document Date: 26 Jul 2008 (Downloads: 189)
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Egypt: Fear of arrest results in Egyptian gays not having HIV tests-By Pink News-04/04/06-http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-1032.html/ (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
This document was provided by Immigration Equality, New York, NY<br><br> In 2001, a number of men were arrested by police following a raid of a Cairo gay meeting point and information recorded from gay websites have resulted in numerous raids in recent years.<br>"It won't change a thing," a man who did not wish to be named told the Reuters news agency. "The Egyptian government wants to pretend gays don't exist, not help them. People like to believe that this is an Islamic society, therefore, there are no gays.<br>The man told reporters that he self identified as bisexual but that he would eventually marry a woman. He claimed to have been undergone regular HIV tests but said that most of his gay and bisexual friends did not and that they often had unprotected bareback sex.<br>"Some think that if you only see Egyptians you won't get AIDS, or that if the whites of their eyes are very clear, they don't have HIV," he said, adding that many prostitutes consider westerners to be HIV-free and therefore do not require the use of a condom.
(PDF - 191 Kb) Document Date: 4 Apr 2006 (Downloads: 209)
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Egypt: In the Fight Against AIDS, The World Cannot Afford Discrimination-By San Francisco Bay Time-04/17/08-http://www.sfbaytimes.com/?sec=article&article_id=7935 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
This document was provided by Immigration Equality, New York, NY<br><brThis week an Egyptian court sentenced four men each to three years in prison because they are gay and HIV-positive. Taken into custody during a sweep of recent arrests of suspected homosexuals, the men were publicly shamed, forced to submit to HIV tests, and tortured by Egyptian authorities. This type of treatment not only violates international human rights standards, it undermines efforts to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS.<br>Around the world, stigma, discrimination, and lack of access to health services have sparked alarming HIV epidemics among men who have sex with men, or MSM. Ironically, it was gay men in the United States and Europe who first brought AIDS into the global spotlight, forcing the issue into the public consciousness during the 1980s. These impassioned advocates fought for increased research funding, access to treatment, and a seat at the decision-making table, and they largely succeeded in slowing the spread of the epidemic in their communities.
(PDF - 79 Kb) Document Date: 17 Apr 2008 (Downloads: 123)
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Egypt: Spreading Crackdown on HIV endangers Public Health-By Human Rights-02/14/08-http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2008/02/14/egypt-spreading-crackdown-hiv-endangers-public-health (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
This document was provided by Immigration Equality, New York, NY<br><br> Cairo police arrested four more men suspected of having HIV, signaling a wider crackdown that endangers public health and violates basic human rights, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said today in a joint statement.<br>The recent arrests bring to 12 the number of men arrested in a campaign against people police suspect of being HIV-positive. Four have already been sentenced to a year in jail and eight are still in custody. The two organizations called on Egyptian authorities to respect the men?s human rights and to immediately release them so as not to cause lasting damage to the country?s HIV/AIDS prevention efforts.
(PDF - 84 Kb) Document Date: 14 Feb 2008 (Downloads: 114)
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Five gay men arrested in Mombasa, Kenya; Mobs call for death by fire - By Paul Canning on http://madikazemi.blogspot.com on 02/13/10: http://madikazemi.blogspot.com/2010/02/five-gay-men-arrested-in-mombassa-kenya.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SaveMehdiKazemi+%28LGBT+asylum+news%29 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Activists claim that all week presenters on the radio stations Kaya and Baraka FM had been inciting people, with Radio Rahama asking Muslims to "find these men". <br><br>
On the Friday The Daily Nation published interviews with local clerics from the Council of Imams and Preachers of Kenya (CIPK) and the National Council of Churches of Kenya (NCCK) who'd called at a press conference the previous day on the government to "vet all nightclubs in the town and close down those found promoting to gay activities." <br><br> "A mob showed up outside the KEMRI building to demonstrate against the gay wedding and gay people in general. They pulled I believe 2 people out of the building and beat them badly. The police intervened and arrested the two ( actually possibly saved their lives from the mob). The police later went to the center and arrested I believe 3 others. So we have five arrested gay men at Mtwapa police station. The mob moved with the police to the station which is where they still are."
(PDF - 456 Kb) Document Date: 13 Feb 2010 (Downloads: 206)
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LGBT rights in United Arab Emirates - by Wickipedia was last modified on 3 January 2010 at 02:50 : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_United_Arab_Emirates (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Federal Penal Code <br><br>
Article 354 of the Federal Penal Code states, "Whoever commits rape on a female or sodomy with a male shall be punished by death." While English translations of the Arabic text are in some dispute, it is generally felt that this is a prohibition against rape, and possibly consensual sodomy.<br><br>
The Federal Penal Code does not replace the legal system of each emirate, unless it is contrary to the federal law, and thus Sharia law remains in place. Hence a person could be charged on this federal penal code, or under a local (emirate) penal code.
(PDF - 132 Kb) Document Date: 3 Jan 2010 (Downloads: 190)
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Malawi gay activist arrested - Rex Wockner International News #825- on 02/15/10 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"Using post-colonial laws to oppress citizens instead of protecting them
is unworthy of any sovereign nation in the world," said Intergroup
Co-President Michael Cashman. "Given that Malawi is now chairing the
African Union, it is incumbent upon them to uphold the human rights of all
their citizens, and that includes lesbian, gay and bisexual people."
(PDF - 22 Kb) Document Date: 15 Feb 2010 (Downloads: 108)
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Muslim Law: State Ordered Hormone Injections For Homosexuals - by literaryguru on www.nowpublic.com, 11/26/08: http://www.nowpublic.com/world/muslim-law-state-ordered-hormone-injections-homosexuals (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"In Dubai, those caught being gay are sentenced to government-ordered hormone treatments, five years in jail and a lashing. While foreigners may be allowed to slip under the radar for being gay in this country, the Muslim citizens are not. " <br><br> "He was told his case was decided and his political refugee status had been accepted based on the dangers he faced back home."
(PDF - 215 Kb) Document Date: 26 Nov 2008 (Downloads: 172)
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Turkey urged to end discriminatory clampdown on gay rights groups - by www.ethiopianreview.com on 02/10/10: http://www.ethiopianreview.com/news/30264 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"Amnesty International called on the Turkish authorities to end its harassment of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) organizations after a new attempt to close down an LGBT group through the courts began on Tuesday." <br><br> "A protracted legal battle, hampering the vital work done by Black Pink Triangle in defending the rights of LGBT individuals, would be a further indictment of Turkey's failure to uphold the right to freedom of association and non-discrimination." said Andrew Gardner."
(PDF - 114 Kb) Document Date: 10 Feb 2010 (Downloads: 104)
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Bosnia and Herzegovina: Include Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in Anti-discrimination Law- IGLHRC on 06/19/09: http://www.iglhrc.org/cgi-bin/iowa/article/takeaction/resourcecenter/937.html (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"In this atmosphere of hostility against LGBT people in Bosnia and Herzegovina it is absolutely essential to include sexual orientation and gender identity in Article 4 of the Law Against Discrimination."
(PDF - 88 Kb) Document Date: 19 Jun 2009 (Downloads: 183)
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Bosnia must respect gay rights say MEPs - By Tony Grew, September 25, 2008 on pinknews.co.uk: http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-9104.html (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
The European Parliament's Intergroup on Gay and Lesbian Rights has condemned the violence at the Sarajevo Queer Festival yesterday as "cowardly behaviour." <br><br>
Michael Cashman Labour MEP for the West Midlands, said that Bosnia-Herzegovina must prove that it respects the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people if it is to stand a chance of becoming a member of the EU.<br><br>
Ten people were injured when a mob shouting homophobic slogans threw stones at the launch of the festival yesterday evening.
(PDF - 206 Kb) Document Date: 25 Sep 2008 (Downloads: 129)
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Bosnia: gay "festival" during Ramadan angers the faithful - by Raymond on August 28, 2008: http://www.jihadwatch.org/2008/08/bosnia-gay-festival-during-ramadan-angers-the-faithful-print.html (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"As in most of the Balkans, there is little tolerance for homosexuality in Bosnia, where for many it remains a taboo. <br><br>
"Such an event dangerously threatens our religious feelings. It is not appropriate to hold it during the Ramadan," said Ezher Beganovic, a journalist with the Islamic magazine Saff."
(PDF - 57 Kb) Document Date: 28 Aug 2008 (Downloads: 182)
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Gay Brazilian man granted asylum in US - Author: Staff Writers, www.starobserver.com.au on 02/11/10: http://www.starobserver.com.au/news/2010/02/11/gay-brazilian-man-granted-asylum-in-us/21330 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"A Brazilian man facing persecution in his homeland for being gay has this month been granted asylum in the United States by the US Department of Homeland Security." <br><br> ?I tried to hide that I was gay, but still faced repeated beatings, attacks, and threats on my life because I was gay.?
According to Pereira de Souza, local police did nothing to alleviate the situation.
?At times I was attacked by skinheads and brutally beaten by cops.
?After the cops attack you and threaten your life for being gay, you learn quickly that there is no one who will protect you.?
(PDF - 418 Kb) Document Date: 11 Feb 2010 (Downloads: 197)
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Kenyan Police Disperse Gay Wedding - By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN, New York Times, on 02/13/10: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/13/world/africa/13kenya.html?hp=&pagewanted=print (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"NAIROBI, Kenya - Kenyan police officers broke up a gay wedding on Friday and arrested several wedding guests, saying they had to intervene before an irate mob could stone the wedding party to death.
Like many other countries in Africa, which are intensely - and officially - homophobic, Kenya outlaws homosexual behavior. Violations in Kenya are punishable by up to 14 years in prison. <br><br>
"It's culture, just culture," said a Kenyan police spokesman, Eric Kiraithe, when asked to explain the intense feelings about homosexuality. "It's what you are taught when you are young and what you hear in church. Homosexuality is unnatural. It?s wrong."
(PDF - 86 Kb) Document Date: 13 Feb 2010 (Downloads: 176)
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Nigeria: A Nation of Police - by Sokari Ekine on www.nigeriavillagesquare.com on 04/08/08: http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/articles/sokari-ekine/a-nation-of-police-14.html (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
This document was provided by Immigration Equality, New York, NY<br><br>
Although the Nigerian Same Sex Marriage Bill of 2006 appears to be at least temporarily shelved, no one knows if and when it will reappear. For the moment the focus is on another proposed ?morality? legislation, the Dress Code Bill sponsored by Senator Eme Ekatte, Chairperson of the Senate Committee on Women and Youth Affairs. At first glance her logic is beyond belief but when looked at in the context of the fundamentalist religious movement led by Bishop Akinola on the one side and Sharia advocates on the other, is it really so surprising? What we have is a country of Jekyll?s and Hyde?s, obsessed by religion and morality one minute and condoning infidelity and silent on sexual and physical child abuse, the next. Despite the wide condemnation of the Bill in the press, reading between the lines there is still the widely held belief that women and girls are the seducers of men.
(PDF - 57 Kb) Document Date: 8 Apr 2008 (Downloads: 185)
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Nigeria: Polygamous Lesbians Flee Sharia - on news.bbc.co.uk on 04/27/07: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6599437.stm (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
This document was provided by Immigration Equality, New York, NY<br><br>
A Nigerian lesbian who "married" four women last weekend in Kano State has gone into hiding from the Islamic police, with her partners.<br><br>
Under Sharia law, adopted in the state seven years ago, homosexuality and same-sex marriages are outlawed and considered very serious offences.
(PDF - 41 Kb) Document Date: 27 Apr 2007 (Downloads: 180)
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Nigeria: Reps Vote Against Gay Marriage - by James Ojo on www.sunnewsonline.com on 01/16/09: http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2009/jan/16/national-16-01-2009-01.htm (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
This document was provided by Immigration Equality, New York, NY<br><br>
House of Representatives yesterday unanimously voted for outright ban of same sex marriage anywhere in the country, as the Bill ?for an Act to prohibit marriage between persons of same gender, solemnisation of same and other matters related therewith? scaled through without any opposition.<br><br>
Sponsored by Hon. Mayor Eze, deputy chairman, House Committee on Steel, all the lawmakers who spoke in favour of the Bill demanded for an outright ban on such acts.
(PDF - 122 Kb) Document Date: 16 Jan 2009 (Downloads: 165)
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Policía Cuba detiene 15 transexuales y homosexuales acusados -bywww.carlaantonelli.com on 02/10/10: http://www.carlaantonelli.com/notis-10022010-policia-cuba-detiene-15-transexuales-y-homosexuales.htm (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
15 jóvenes homosexuales y transexuales fueron arrestados por la policía en la noche del pasado martes frente al Capitolio de esta ciudad. Las detenciones fueron parte de una gran redada contra gays, bisexuales y transexuales que se reúnen en la calle Prado, frente al Capitolo.<br><br>
15 young homosexuals and transsexuals were arrested by the police last Tuesday night in front of the Capitol of this city. The detentions were part of a big round-up against gays, bisexuals and transsexuals who gather on Prado Street, in front of the Capitol.
(PDF - 166 Kb) Document Date: 10 Feb 2010 (Downloads: 217)
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Scholars decry lesbian scene in Egyptian movie - Translated from Arabic by Sonia Farid on www.alarabiya.net, 01/07/08: http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2008/01/07/43893.html (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
This document was provided by Immigration Equality, New York, NY<br><br>Religious scholars in Egypt are outraged by a lesbian scene in a new movie, telling audiences to stay away from the sinful flick and calling for the director and actresses to be prosecuted.<br><br>
Preacher and Islamic Studies professor at Cairo University, Dr. Abdel-Sabour Shahin accused the new movie, Heena Maysara (Until Further Notice), of spreading homosexuality and promoting debauchery.
(PDF - 222 Kb) Document Date: 7 Jan 2008 (Downloads: 187)
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Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Qatar - by John Fisher Co-Director, ARC International, on 02/10/10 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
86. The following recommendations did not enjoy the support of Qatar:<br><br>
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6. To ensure that LGBT persons are not discriminated against and, as an immediate step, to amend the provisions of the penal code criminalizing consensual sexual activity among persons of the same sex and to ensure that no one is punished for such activity under Sharia law (Sweden).
(PDF - 44 Kb) Document Date: 10 Feb 2010 (Downloads: 187)
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