Bangladeshi activists are seeking to raise £25,000 to mount a legal challenge to the country’s colonial-era anti-LGBT law. Continue reading
Tag Archives: Trials / punishments
Russia blocks advocates for gay Chechens
Russia is ramping up its opposition to LGBTI advocates seeking an end to human rights abuses in Chechnya. It has arrested protesters in Moscow and issued a formal statement denying that 100 gay Chechens were arrested and tortured in secret detention sites. Continue reading
Uganda: LGBTI ally Stella Nyanzi freed on bail
Uganda LGBTI rights ally Stella Nyanzi was released on bail on May 10, after more than a month in prison. Continue reading
200 anti-LGBT arrests on four continents
About 200 LGBT people worldwide have been arrested in recent weeks in anti-LGBT police actions in southeastern Europe, the Middle East, Africa and the Caribbean. Continue reading
How to help Stella Nyanzi, activist now teaching and learning in Ugandan jail (UPDATED)
Outspoken Ugandan feminist and LGBTI ally Stella Nyanzi made good use of her time in Luzira Prison, while her supporters raised money to help pay her legal costs and support her family. [Update: She was released on bail on May 10.] Continue reading
Cameroon: Arrested a year ago, abandoned today
A life of rejection and isolation awaited Hervé after his arrest a year ago in Cameroon on homosexuality charges. With his case still unresolved in court, Hervé clings to a hope that someone will help him. Continue reading
Uganda targets LGBTI ally Stella Nyanzi (UPDATED)
Prominent Ugandan LGBTI ally Stella Nyanzi has been arrested on charges of insulting Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni. She remains in custody pending a bail hearing. Continue reading
Tunisia: 2 months in jail for 2 men for behaving like women
The Tunisian LGBTI advocacy group Shams (a word that means “sun”) reported today: “The Sousse Court of Appeal upheld a two-month jail sentence against two boys [ages 19 and 25] from Hammam Sousse. “They will be released today, seeing that they were arrested on Jan. 12, 2017, and that they have now served their entire … Continue reading
Jamaica newspaper seeks reversal of anti-gay law
Jamaica’s largest newspaper has endorsed the constitutional challenge against the country’s anti-gay “buggery law.” Continue reading
Lebanon court: Gay sex is natural; anti-gay law weakens
Lebanon has moved closer to ending prosecutions under its anti-gay law, Human Rights Watch stated yesterday. A Lebanese court ruled that because homosexuality is natural, the law against “intercourse contrary to the order of nature” does not apply to same-sex intimacy. Continue reading
