Gay community in al fallujah, iraq

Possible sentences are unclear, but the death penalty has been imposed on LGBT people. Politics Brooks and Capehart Politics Monday Supreme Court. Heteronormativity has always been the prevailing status quo in conservative-majority Iraq, but no legislation had explicitly criminalized same-sex conduct until Saturday when the parliament made.

We're not going anywhere. LGBTQ people in Iraq live in constant fear amid rising violence against their community. World Agents for Change. Qassim Abdul-Zahra, Associated Press Qassim Abdul-Zahra, Associated Press. Yes Not now. Campaigns against gay or effeminate men have been met with indifference by the Iraqi state.

By — Abdulrahman Zeyad, Associated Press Abdulrahman Zeyad, Associated Press. The Latest. Science The Leading Edge ScienceScope Basic Research Innovation and Invention. The new law makes biological sex change a crime, and punishes transgender people and doctors who perform gender-affirming surgery with up to three years in prison.

Education Teachers' Lounge Student Reporting Labs. Iraqi officials have defended the law as upholding societal values and portrayed criticisms of it as Western interference. Accounts paint a harrowing picture of life as an LGBT person in Iraq, where the community is disproportionately affected by laws against extra-marital sex and undefined "immodest acts" in public.

Abdulrahman Zeyad, Associated Press Abdulrahman Zeyad, Associated Press. Support Provided By: Learn more. Iraq criminalises same-sex sexual activity between men and between women. Stand up for truly independent, trusted news that you can count on! Arts CANVAS Poetry Now Read This.

A previous draft version of the anti-prostitution law, which was ultimately not passed, would have allowed the death sentence to be imposed for same-sex relations. For Teachers Newshour Classroom. Donate now. New Iraqi laws are changing all that. Nation Supreme Court Race Matters Essays Brief But Spectacular.

Health Long-Term Care. In August , the Human Rights Watch report, ‘ They Want us Exterminated: Murder, Torture, Sexual Orientation and Gender in Iraq ’ confirmed that the Mahdi army and other militias had been involved in a widespread “gay massacre”. BAGHDAD AP — Human rights groups and diplomats criticized a law that was quietly passed by the Iraqi parliament over the weekend that would impose heavy prison sentences on gay and transgender people.

By — Qassim Abdul-Zahra, Associated Press Qassim Abdul-Zahra, Associated Press. It was always double-edged, but in Iraq, social media was often a comparatively safe place where the local queer community could meet. A report released by the organization in accused armed groups in Iraq of abducting, raping, torturing, and killing lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people with impunity and the Iraqi government of failing to hold perpetrators accountable.

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