Iraq makes same-sex relations punishable by up to 15 years in jail
Iraq makes same-sex relations punishable by up to 15 years in jail
Amendments to anti-prostitution law also enable courts to sentence trans people to three years in prison
Amendments to anti-prostitution law also enable courts to sentence trans people to three years in prison
Iraq’s parliament has passed a bill making same-sex relations punishable by up to 15 years in prison, in a move condemned as an “attack on human rights”.
Transgender people will also be sentenced to three years in jail under the amendments to a 1988 anti-prostitution law, which were adopted during a session attended by 170 out of 329 lawmakers on Saturday.
A previous draft had proposed capital punishment for same-sex relations, in what campaigners had called a “dangerous” escalation. The new amendments enable courts to sentence people to between 10 and 15 years in prison, according to the document seen by AFP, in a country where gay and transgender people already face frequent attacks and discrimination.
They also set a minimum seven-year prison term for “promoting” same-sex relations and a sentence ranging from one to three years for men who “intentionally” act like women.
Its weird republicans hate middle eastern people so much. These guys are enacting the laws they wish they had.
104Do you remember the Dave Chappel skit where a blind black man was a white supremacist and joined the KKK?
He did not understand why they wanted to kill him because he thought he was just like them.
12that KKK also had a gay man at their meeting. his head exploded
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Not to me. People can agree and not like each other. For example both me and another man can agree that X belongs to someone, X is very desirable to have, and that X's ownership is in dispute between me and someone else.
Christians and Muslims agree on many things that doesn't mean less conflict it means more.
1Made me think of this video by darkmatter2525 (beware, it's kindof offensive, but also funny)
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Coming soon to a red state near you!
26Including them being talked down from the death penalty.
8Florida is already there. They've been trying to:
- Allow the death penalty for sexual abusers
- Make trans healthcare for children (and later, for anyone) a kind of sexual abuse
- Reduce the number of jurors needed to give someone the death sentence
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Stop believing in skydaddy and save the life of a LGBT person
14they're proposing to lock same-sex partners together for 15 years? why not just let them live together by themselves -- they save 15 years' worth of taxpayer money per person!
12It’s just really extreme marriage counseling
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Wow. Two stories in one day about how America brought freedom to Iraq.
2How is this America's fault? If anything, this is only happening because the US can't protect them.
7Must be time to bomb them back into compliance with western values.
4Bombing isn't really in the Iraq playbook yet.
Maybe it can be added after the latest section on insurrection sand we'll see about next time.
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This is how I find out Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei is breaking up with me?
Whatever. He was a terrible kisser anyway.
2you mixed up your Ira-s
4Yep. I noticed and deleted it.
For the curious, it was a throwaway joke about this being how I found out Iran’s Supreme Leader was breaking up with me. But this is about Iraq so I think we’re still together.
6I can't believe the Irish nationalists would enact such a law 😔
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Iraq’s parliament has passed a bill making same-sex relations punishable by up to 15 years in prison, in a move condemned as an “attack on human rights”.
They also set a minimum seven-year prison term for “promoting” same-sex relations and a sentence ranging from one to three years for men who “intentionally” act like women.
The amended law makes “biological sex change based on personal desire and inclination” a crime and punishes trans people and doctors who perform gender reassignment surgery with up to three years in prison.
Lawmaker Raed al-Maliki, who advanced the amendments, told AFP that “the law serves as a preventive measure to protect society from such acts”.
He said passing the new amendment was postponed until after Iraqi prime minister Mohammed Shia’ al-Sudani’s visit to the United States earlier this month.
LGBTQ+ Iraqis have been forced into the shadows, often targeted with “kidnappings, rapes, torture and murders” that go unpunished, according to a 2022 report by Human Rights Watch and the IraQueer non-governmental organisation.
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1Man all the freedom the USA brought in action bigly
-2Thanks American brought freedom to Iraq
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