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Algerian transsexual's memoirs reveal life of discrimination - BBC on 07/09/10: http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/07/09/randa.algeria.transsexual.lebanon/
An Algerian transsexual has published her memoirs, describing the discrimination she faced in her home country, which culminated in death threats that forced her to flee to Lebanon.
As an adult Randa worked as a nurse in a clinic and set up a support group for gays and transsexuals in Algeria. But she said her public support for homosexuals brought unwelcome attention from the authorities, in a country where homosexuality and transsexuality is illegal.
Randa said she was eventually forced to flee the country after receiving written and verbal death threats from radical religious groups.
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Document Date: 9 Jul 2010
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Algeria [LEBANON]: Memoir sheds light on the life and struggles of Arab transsexual from Algeria- by latimesblogs.latimes.com on 03/30/10: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2010/03/algerialebanon-randa-the-trans-tells-life-of-an-arab-transsexual-in-new-memoir.html
"The threatening letters and phone calls at night trickled in at a steady pace. They had become a part of everyday life for Randa, an Algerian transsexual and one of the pioneers in the Arab world's gay and transsexual activist movement."
"It was horrible at school," she said. "The verbal and physical aggression just got worse and worse. ... My parents made me change school five or six times. I remember them cutting my hair really short to make sure I'd look like a boy."
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Document Date: 30 Mar 2010
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Algerian trans asylum seeker needs help- Source: GAAI on 12/23/09: http://madikazemi.blogspot.com/2009/12/algerian-trans-asylum-seeker-needs-help.html
"In April 2009, we have helped an Algerian transsexual woman who has survived many death threats get a visa to come to Beirut. It had become dangerous for her to live in Algeria, and she landed in Beirut hoping to apply for Asylum to another country from here so she can continue her trans operations and live her life without fear."
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Document Date: 23 Dec 2009
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Algeria: Treatment of homosexuals by both state and society in general.- Researched and compiled by the Refugee Documentation Centre of Ireland on 10 June 2009 : http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/country,,,QUERYRESPONSE,DZA,456d621e2,4a360c790,0.html
"?An article in QX Magazine states that the Algerian police do not protect
"sodomites" from violence (18 Jan. 2005). According to an article in the UK Gay
News, the police and military reportedly "harass and brutalise gay people with
impunity" (21 Feb. 2005). Moreover, rape, beatings, and torture are reported to
be common for gay men in both civilian and military prisons (QX Magazine 18
Jan. 2005; UK Gay News 21 Feb. 2005; Behind the Mask 21 Feb. 2005).? (ibid.) "
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Document Date: 10 Jun 2009
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Algeria : Samir est libre / Samir is Free - ARDHIS, 05/29/09 : http://www.educationsansfrontieres.org/article20255.html
This document was translated in full by Etienne Kochoyan
Il risque ainsi d'être expulsé en Algérie à tout moment.
Pour Samir, c'est un coup de tonnerre. En Algérie, il risque une peine de prison de 2 ans pour homosexualité. La pression sociale homophobe y est cause de nombreuses agressions physiques, comment pourrait-il y retrouver une place dans la société? Sous ces pressions, sa famille restée en Algérie risque aussi de devoir le rejeter, auprès de qui trouvera-t-il du soutien? Samir doit rester en France, il en va de sa sécurité !
He can be deported in Algeria at any moment.
For Samir, this is a catastrophe. In Algeria, he could be condemned to 2 years of prison for homosexuality. Homophobia is the cause of many physical aggressions there. How could he find his place in the society? His family in Algeria might have to reject him, who is going to shelter him then? Samir must stay in France, this is essential for his safety.
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Document Date: 29 May 2009
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Algerian transsexual returns to Alicante [Spain] after government revokes deportation order- www.typicallyspanish.com/ 02/17/08
Her lawyer argued that she faced persecution in her home country if she was forced to return to Algeria, where she could have faced prosecution as a homosexual.
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Document Date: 17 Mar 2008
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Algeria: US Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2007, Released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor 03/11/08
Other Societal Abuses and Discrimination
The law criminalizes public homosexual behavior and there is no specific legal protection of homosexuals in the country. There was also generally societal discrimination against homosexuals, but not violence or official discrimination. While some homosexuals lived openly, the vast majority did not.
AIDS is considered a shameful disease in Algeria. According to March statistics released by the Ministry of Health, 2,100 citizens were HIV-positive and 736 people suffered from AIDS. There were 54 centers offering free services to detect AIDS in Algeria. During the year according to a survey of 30,000 families in the 48 wilayas performed by UNICEF, only 15 percent were aware of means to protect themselves from contracting AIDS. During the year, the health ministry along with the NGO AIDS Algerie launched an AIDS prevention campaign, stressing the need to avoid discrimination, especially in the workplace, against those with HIV/AIDS.
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Document Date: 11 Mar 2008
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Algeria: Spain grants asylum to Algerian transsexual - 11/12/07
Rex Wockner International #707
Spain granted political asylum to an Algerian transsexual Nov. 6.
"B.B." was able to prove she had faced persecution and social and workplace discrimination in Algeria based on her gender identity. Gay sex is banned in Algeria under penalty of three years in prison.
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Document Date: 12 Nov 2007
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Home Office loses gay Algerian deportation case - By Staff Writer, PinkNews.co.uk 10/27/07: http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-5848.html/
"The Home Office had argued the 27-year-old man, referred to as B, would be safe from persecution as long as he was discreet about his homosexuality."
"However Mr Justice Collins disagreed, saying that B, who has been fighting to remain in the UK since 1996, was at risk of persecution."
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Document Date: 24 Oct 2007
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Algeria: RESPONSES TO INFORMATION REQUESTS (RIRs) - DZA102570.E - Canadian Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board, Ottawa 07/28/04
Algeria: Treatment of homosexuals by society and government authorities; protection available including recourse to the law for homosexuals who have been subject to ill-treatment (2005 - 2007)
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Document Date: 30 Jul 2007
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Algeria: Ordeal of a gay asylum seeker- UK Indymedia 05/06/06
Ramzi Isalam tells how he scaped murder by Islamic fundamentalists in Algeria, and is battling agains theHome Office to win asylum in Britain.
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Document Date: 6 May 2006
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Algeria- ILGA: World Legal Survery as of 05/01/06
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Document Date: 1 May 2006
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Algeria: Statute: Article 388 of the Penal Code- www.sodomylaws.org 04/21/05
According to Article 388 of the penal code (adopted June 8 1996) sodomy may be punished with imprisonment from two months to 2 years and a fine of 10,000 Algerian dinars.[1] According to Article 333, an "outrage to public decency" increases the penalties in the case of "acts against nature with a member of the same sex" with a prison sentence of between 6 months to 3 years and a fine of between 1,000 and 10,000 dinar
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Document Date: 21 Apr 2005
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My escape from homophobic hell in Algeria- by Ramzi Isalam, www.indymedia.org.uk 03/30/05
Algeria is not a safe place for queers. Gay sex is totally illegal; punishable by up to two years' imprisonment. Arrest and torture by the police and military are ever-present dangers. The victims have no legal redress. This statesanctioned homophobic persecution is compounded by the rise of an armed fundamentalist movement. Islamist terrorists target gays for beatings, torture and extrajudicial execution.
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Document Date: 30 Mar 2005
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Algeria: Death to Deviants- 3/7/05
My escape from homophobic hell in Algeria, by Ramzi Isalam
Algeria is not a safe place for queers. Gay sex is totally illegal; punishable by up to two years' imprisonment. Arrest and torture by the police and military are ever-present dangers. The victims have no legal redress.
This state?sanctioned homophobic persecution is compounded by the rise of an armed fundamentalist movement. Islamist terrorists target gays for beatings, torture and extra?judicial execution.
Algerian homosexuals are caught between the twin barbarisms of a totalitarian state and a clerical fascist opposition. Everyone is against us. Human rights groups in Algiers do nothing to defend ?sodomites?. In their view, there is no such thing as gay human rights.
My first experience of homophobic violence was when I was raped by a soldier at the age of 14. There was nothing I could do. I could not go to the police. They would have probably arrested and beaten me.
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Document Date: 7 Mar 2005
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Why isn't Ken defending the victims of Islamist repression? Hurryupharry.bloghouse.net-02/23/05
n the following post, by Outrage's Ramzi Isalam, a Gay Muslim who escaped murder by Islamic fundamentalists in Algeria, he urges the left to side with the victims of the Islamist repression ? not the perpetrators.
Ken Livingstone?s abusive comments to Jewish reporter Oliver Finegold is the latest in a series of gaffes that have alienated many of the Mayor?s loyal left-wing supporters.
His insensitive remarks about the Holocaust follow his ill-judged embrace and defence of the Muslim fundamentalist cleric, Dr Yusuf al-Qaradawi.
Ken claims Qaradawi is a ?moderate? who combats ?socially regressive interpretations of Islam.? This is complete nonsense. Liberal Muslims all over the world reject Qaradawi?s intolerant views, which include the killing of apostates, gays, adulteresses and innocent Israeli civilians.
As a victim of Islamist repression, I am amazed the Mayor has dared to misrepresent a reactionary cleric like Qaradawi as a progressive; especially since Ken has never offered any support to those of us who have suffered at the hands of the Islamists.
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Document Date: 23 Feb 2005
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gay algerian faces deportation after 10 years in uk- By Brett Lock, OutRage! UK-www.mask.org.za 02/21/05
"If he is forcibly returned, Saad will be at risk of imprisonment by the Algerian authorities and could be murdered by the country's violently anti-gay Islamic fundamentalists."
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Document Date: 21 Feb 2005
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After 10 years in UK, man faces deportation and separation from partner - www.pageoneq.com by UKgaynews.org.uk 2/21/05
After living a happy, secure life in Britain since he was 15, a 25-year old gay Algerian, Saad B, now faces being torn apart from his lover and deported to his violently homophobic homeland of Algeria
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Document Date: 21 Feb 2005
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Gay Algerian Faces Deportation After 10 Years in UK - www.sodomylaws.org by UK Gay News 2/21/05
"November
26, 2004
"I fled Algeria because the Islamists beat me and threatened to kill me," he said.
"Being deported back to Algeria would be a nightmare. It is a very dangerous
place for lesbians and gay men. People like me get killed. I could not cope with
always looking over my shoulder, fearful of being murdered because of my
sexuality," he added. "
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Document Date: 21 Feb 2005
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Gay Algerian faces deportation after 10 years in the UK-SodomyLaws- Lover pleads for partner to be allowed to stay- Sodomylaws.com- [UK Gay News] 02/21/05
LONDON, February 21 ? After living a happy, secure life in Britain since he was 15, a 25-year old gay Algerian, Saad B, now faces being torn apart from his lover and deported to his violently homophobic homeland of Algeria.
And Saad B?s partner of four years, Matthew Skelly, is pleading for him to be allowed to stay in the UK.
?I am left cold inside at the thought I could lose my boyfriend. I try to block things out and get on with life as normal, but the constant worry and sleepless nights serve as a reminder that two lives can be so arbitrarily ruined. I pray every night that sense and compassion will prevail; that Saad will be allowed to stay with me in the UK?, he said.
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Document Date: 21 Feb 2005
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Algeria: Ordeal of a Gay Asylum Seeker- IndymediaUK.org.UK- 1/26/05
Ramzi Isalam tells how he escaped murder by Islamic fundamentalists in Algeria, and is battling against the Home Office to win asylum in Britain
Being gay in Algeria is a nightmare. I was raped by a soldier. Then beaten and threatened with death by Islamic fundamentalists. Two of my gay friends were murdered by the Islamists.
Gay sex is illegal in Algeria; punishable by two years imprisonment. I now face up to five years jail for evading the draft. I refused military service because gay recruits often get queer-bashed and gang-banged. In Algerian civilian and military prisons, homophobic torture and rape are commonplace. I don?t want to suffer that fate.
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Document Date: 26 Jan 2005
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Algeria: EXECUTIVE SUMMARY OF THE ALGERIA COUNTRY RISK ASSESSMENT - 2005
Human Rights and Business
Right to Freedom from Discrimination (art. 2) constitutes a high-risk human rights area for Algeria. Women,
homosexuals, non-Muslims, and ethnic minorities (primarily Amazighs and Tuaregs) constitute particularly vulnerable
groups in Algeria and are highly susceptible to discriminatory treatment. In spite of some progress in gender equality in
recent years, Algeria remains a male dominated society where women are denied equal property, marriage or divorce
rights and are discouraged to participate in public life and from working outside the home. Women who do work outside
the home (15, 21% of women in Algeria) are sometimes subjected to discrimination, including sexual harassment.
Moreover, women constitute the bulk of the workforce in the informal sector, which is growing in tandem with the
privatisation of the Algerian economy. Work conditions in the informal sector are reportedly poor and maternity leave
rights areniÌt always recognised.
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Document Date: 1 Jan 2005
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Algeria: gay man seeks asylum in uk - www.mask.org.za 12/02/04
December 2, 2004: The campaign around the case of Ramzi Isalam hots up as UK activist group, OutRage! adopt his cause and go public with their demands.
"A gay Algerian refugee is at risk of deportation back to his home country, where there is a serious danger he would be murdered by Islamic fundamentalists." Say UK gay rights group OutRage!.
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Document Date: 2 Dec 2004
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Algeria: Country Report-Behind The Mask-www.mask.org-12/02/04
Legal wise
Homosexuality is illegal, punishable by 3 years in prison.
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Document Date: 2 Dec 2004
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Algeria: War Against Gays and Lesbians-www.mask.org by Peter Tachell 12/02/04
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Document Date: 2 Dec 2004
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Algeria: Laws Relating to Homosexuality - www.mask.org by Cathy Crimmins 12/2/04
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Document Date: 2 Dec 2004
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Outrage! Petitions for Algerian Asylum Refugee - By Sodomy Lawson 11/26/04 :http://www.glapn.org/sodomylaws/world/algeria/alnews002.htm
This document was provided by Immigration Equality, NY
"Brett Lock from Outrage! said: ?Algeria is a very repressive homophobic
Islamic state. The armed insurrection and terrorist campaign by Islamic
fundamentalists poses an extreme danger to every lesbian and gay Alegerian.
Gay people are targeted for assasination and extra-judicial killing. The Algerian
state offers no protection and, in fact, criminalises homosexuality with
inprisonment."
(PDF - 70 KB)
Document Date: 26 Nov 2004
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Algeria: RESPONSES TO INFORMATION REQUESTS (RIRs) - DZA42879.FE - Canadian Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board, Ottawa 07/28/04
Algeria: Update to DZA38124.F of 7 January 2002 on the treatment of homosexuals by Algerian society and the police (January 2002-July 2004)
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Document Date: 29 Jul 2004
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Algeria Country Report April 2004
Country Information and Policy Unit
Immigration and Nationality Directorate
Home Office, United Kingdom
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Document Date: 1 Apr 2004
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Algeria: Workshop on Sexual and Bodily Rights as Human Rights in the Middle East and North Africa'03
Liz Ercevik
Women for Womenâs Human Rights (WWHR) â NEW WAYS &
Mediterranean Academy of Diplomatic Studies
May 29 - June 1, 2003, Malta
Summary Report
prepared by Liz Ercevik Amado
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Document Date: 1 Jun 2003
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Algeria: Asylum-seekers fleeing a continuing human rights crisis- Amnesty International 06/01/03
Grounds for persecution may be attributable not only to activities, beliefs or
associations in Algeria itself, but may also relate to activities, in particular political
and human rights activities, outside Algeria. Indeed, any conduct which is perceived
as opposing the social, religious or political status quo is likely to attract the adverse
attention of the authorities. This includes, for instance, expressions of homosexuality.
(PDF - 459 KB)
Document Date: 1 Jun 2003
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Algerie: Les gays quittent le pays pour Johanna Wirt- Gays Leave the country by Johanna Wirt- 02/28/02
Fevrier 2002: Depuis deux ans, de plus en plus gays algeriens choisissent de quitter leur pays pour se refugier en Europe ou aux Etats-Unis.
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Document Date: 28 Feb 2002
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