Im Irak werden gleichgeschlechtliche Beziehungen mit bis zu 15 Jahren Gefängnis bestraft
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/27/iraq-makes-same-sex-relations-punishable-by-up-to-15-years-in-jail
Im Irak werden gleichgeschlechtliche Beziehungen mit bis zu 15 Jahren Gefängnis bestraft
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/27/iraq-makes-same-sex-relations-punishable-by-up-to-15-years-in-jail
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shocker
Sky blue:says new report!
And *nobody* has gay sex in jail!
Iraq sux
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Is that supposed to be an upgrade from hanging in Iran or beheading in Saudi?
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Still it’s more humane than Hamas’ punishment for same-sex relations.
[Source](https://www.newsweek.com/prominent-hamas-commander-was-executed-after-accusations-gay-sex-432343)
Iraq is becoming Texas
I can’t believe a nation can be this triggered by the fact that gays exist
That only codifies into law what had already been practiced using other laws.
> Homosexuality is taboo in Iraq’s conservative society, but there had not previously been a law that explicitly punished same-sex relations. Members of Iraq’s LGBTQ+ community have been prosecuted for sodomy or under vague morality and anti-prostitution clauses in Iraq’s penal code.
> “Iraq has effectively codified in law the discrimination and violence members of the LGBTI community have been subjected to with absolute impunity for years,” said Amnesty International’s Iraq researcher, Razaw Salihy.