KENYA: HOPES FOR CALM YET CLERICS STOKE HATRED

In the aftermath of the attempted anti-gay pogrom in Mtwapa, Kenya, the Daily Nation reports that the government’s attempts to calm the situation are being rebuffed by clerics. The government has set up a committee which aims to educate the public on the operations of the Kenya Medical Research...

February 22nd, 2010 | Highlights, International | Read More

FIVE GAY MEN ARRESTED IN MOMBASSA – MOB CALLS FOR DEATH BY FIRE

Six gay men arrested allegedly to protect them from a rampaging mob in Mombasa, Kenya are to be charged with ‘having unnatural sex against the order of nature’ and subjected to medical examinations. A riot started on Friday following a report in Kenya’s newspaper The Daily Nation,...

February 16th, 2010 | Highlights, International | Read More

TATCHELL: LUTON ISLAMIC TRIAL VERDICT “DANGEROUS”

Peter Tatchell today has today warned about threat to free speech and the right to protest following the guilty verdicts against five Muslim men who protested at a home-coming parade by soldiers from the Royal Anglian Regiment in Luton last year. The convicted men were associated with fundamentalist...

January 12th, 2010 | Comment, Highlights, News | Read More

“KILL GAYS” PREACHER HOSTED BY LONDON UNIVERSITIES

Human rights activist Peter Tatchell has urged the Vice-Chancellor of University College London to resign after the university plans to host an event by extremist preacher Abu Usamah. In a statement released today, Tatchell says: “University College London is planning to host an extremist Islamist...

November 24th, 2009 | News | Read More

TATCHELL: “JUST SAY NO TO SHARIA LAW”

Great article in today’s Comment is Free in the Guardian Online by Peter Tatchell ahead of Saturday’s march against religious laws. In it he urges support for “the courageous Muslims who, often at great personal risk, are campaigning against religious extremism”. Although...

November 20th, 2009 | News | Read More

LONDON RALLY AGAINST SHARIA LAW

A rally against religious law will take place this Saturday 21 November at Hyde Park, London. Organised by the One Law for All campaign – which opposes all religious laws in Britain and worldwide – the rally also aims to show solidarity with people resisting Sharia Law throughout the world. Supporter...

November 19th, 2009 | International, News | Read More

SHARI’AH LAW MARCH IN LONDON THIS SATURDAY

A march is to take place in London on Saturday 31st October demanding Shari’ah law be implemented in Britain. Organised by Islam4UK – an offshoot of the banned Al Muhajiroun group – the march will begin at Parliament, pass through Whitehall and end at Trafalgar Square. According to...

October 26th, 2009 | News | Read More

COMMENT: FROM JAMAICA, WITH HATE

Last year, Bounty Killer – one of the hearty proponents of Jamaican Murder Music – performed some of his homicidal hoedowns at the Stratford Rex, with the full blessing of the London Met Police Force. This July, Buju Banton (he of ‘Boom Bye Bye’ fame) did the same at the Hammersmith Apollo....

October 21st, 2009 | International, Music, News | Read More