Category: World – LGBTQ Rights
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Russia: Criminal Charges for Gay-Friendly Chat Show
Russian authorities should drop a criminal case over a YouTube video of children talking to a gay man and ensure the man’s safety amid threats and attempted physical attacks, Human Rights Watch said today.
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Ugandan Authorities Amp Up Persecution of LGBTIQ People
LGBTIQ activists in Uganda confirm that on Sunday, November 10th, an LGBTIQ-friendly bar in Kampala was raided and 125 people arrested and charged with drug possession, indicating an intentional and growing persecution of LGBTIQ people in the country.
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Uganda Police Confirm Arrest of 120 LGBTQ People
Ugandan police said Monday that in an operation around Kampala’s city centre, they arrested 120 people suspected to have been using narcotics.
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Turkey: Charges Against 19 LGBTI+ Rights Defenders Must Be Dropped
Civil Rights Defenders, International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), Front Line Defenders and International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA-Europe) call upon Turkish authorities to drop all charges against 19 LGBTI+ rights defenders due to stand trial on 12 November 2019 in Ankara.
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Uganda: Forced Anal Exams Violate Rights
Ugandan police arrested 16 men in Kampala on October 21, 2019 after a crowd shouted homophobic slurs and threatened to attack them. The police accused the men of homosexual conduct.
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Homophobic Uganda Plans to Re-introduce «Anti-Homosexuality Act»
In an interview with Thomson Reuters today the Ethics and Integrity Minister of Uganda, Simon Lokodo, has announced plans to introduce to parliament a bill imposing the death penalty for same-sex relations and «promotion and recruitment» of homosexuality in order to curb a rise in «unnatural sex». Local activists confirm that it is to be tabled on October 28, 2019.