LONDON PROTEST AGAINST UGANDAN ANTI-GAY BILL

HOMOVISION — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 11:44:36 +0000

Outrage is supporting a protest this Thursday 10th December against the Anti-Homosexuality Bill that’s currently being debated in the Ugandan parliament. The bill proposes the death penalty for agrreavated and serial homosexual acts and extends the existing penalty of life imprisonment for anal sex to all other same-sex behaviour, including the mere touching of another person with the intent to have gay relations.

That means if you lived in Uganda you’d be one of the first people to go.

Outrage!’s Peter Tatchell adds: “Membership of LGBT organisations and funding for them, advocacy of LGBT human rights and the provision of condoms or safer sex advice to LGBT people will result in a minimum sentence of five years and a maximum of seven years for “promoting” homosexuality. A person in authority who fails to report violators to the police within 24 hours will incur three years behind bars.”

“Astonishingly, the new legislation has an extra-territorial jurisdiction. It will also apply to Ugandans who commit these ‘crimes’ while living abroad, in countries where such behaviour is not a criminal offence. Violators overseas will be subjected to extradition, trial and punishment in Uganda,” he said.

Protest takes place this Thursday 10th December, 12noon- 2pm, Ugandan High Commission, 58-59 Trafalger Square, Charing Cross.

GAY IRANIAN SENTENCED TO DEATH

Simon McD — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:07:23 +0000

Nemat Safavi, 21 years old, has been sentenced to death by the juvenile court in Ardebil, a city northwest Iran.

According to the Human Rights Activist Group in Iran, Nemat was detained by Iranian authorities when he was 16 years old because of taking part in homosexual acts. He was sentenced to death after being tried in the court of Ardebil. Nemat spent time since his arrest in a ‘rectification and education’ centre, and is now being kept in the division of youths in an Ardebil prison.

Gays in Iran are put to death and persecuted by their government, simply for being who they are.

Human Rights group Iranian Railroad for Queer Refugees calls on people to write, fax, call, or email to Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and any LGBT organizations to support Nemat and vigorously oppose his execution.

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