A young man is skinned alive, a sign of new Taliban brutality

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxKt2ZgIbyuz9GweeTMOr_ubTFCbudZYSB6WLsm_Y4il-BYmqbufCuxT7SEzWq09xdZJ7VCFgbihPBrTsjU7pmXzTC0KNpUNV_66biNzKKvxMvET1pMAAeWILZVul2RUORvRyU_0bvpEI/s1600/Afghanistan+Taliban.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="The 15-year war is taken an increasingly brutal turn" border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxKt2ZgIbyuz9GweeTMOr_ubTFCbudZYSB6WLsm_Y4il-BYmqbufCuxT7SEzWq09xdZJ7VCFgbihPBrTsjU7pmXzTC0KNpUNV_66biNzKKvxMvET1pMAAeWILZVul2RUORvRyU_0bvpEI/s400/Afghanistan+Taliban.jpg" title="The 15-year war is taken an increasingly brutal turn" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'The 15-year war is taken an increasingly brutal turn.'</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;">KABUL — In a remote area of Afghanistan, where thousands of years of hardscrabble tribal culture increasingly mixes with a resurgent Taliban militancy, this is how Fazl Ahmad allegedly died.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Local officials in Ghor province said one of Ahmad’s distant relatives was suspected of killing a former Taliban commander. In December, militants dragged Ahmad from his house and cut out his eyes in retaliation.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ahmad was still alive and screaming when the attackers began carving the skin off his chest, leaving his heart exposed. Then they threw the 21-year old laborer off a 10-story cliff, officials said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“They skinned him alive,” said Ruqiya Naeel, a member of parliament from the area.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Taliban denied involvement in the grisly crime, the aftermath of which was documented in a recently circulated video and photograph.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">But even so, Ahmad’s death is the latest in a string of violent acts across Afghanistan over the past six months. Rattled officials say the 15-year war is taken an increasingly brutal turn.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“The amount of casualties, particularly with civilians, is a crime — a crime against humanity, a crime against Afghanistan, and a crime against our people,” a somber Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said in a meeting with reporters last week.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Since 2001, the United States has invested more than $100 billion building Afghan military and police forces, a judicial system and schools in hopes of moving the country closer to normality. But all that spending appears to have done little to slow a cycle of rage and revenge that has made Afghanistan one of the world’s most dangerous countries.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Horrific violence is nothing new in Afghanistan.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Public executions were common when the Taliban ruled the country in the 1990s, and tens of thousands of Afghans have been killed during the post-2001 Taliban insurgency. Afghanistan, like neighboring Pakistan, also has a long history of cultural and religious conservatism associated with violent retribution.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">But analysts say the scale of the brutality continues to evolve as the Taliban becomes more fragmented and pushes out into additional areas of Afghanistan. Younger Taliban commanders also now operate more independently and are increasingly inspired by other brutal acts easily viewed on the Internet, the say.<br /><br />As the original leaders of the insurgency die, they are being replaced by younger commanders who appear less interested in maintaining ties to the local areas in which they are fighting. These fighters also are more connected through the Internet to the global ambitions of militant Islamic groups, which is resulting in some Taliban commanders’ attempting to borrow the fear tactics used by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/a-young-man-was-skinned-alive-in-afghanistan-a-sign-of-new-taliban-brutality/2016/06/10/6b7592fa-2e8a-11e6-b9d5-3c3063f8332c_story.html" target="_blank">Click here to read the full article</a></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Source: The Washington Post, Tim Craig, June 11, 2016</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">- Report an error, an omission:<a href="mailto:deathpenaltynews@gmail.com" target="_blank"> deathpenaltynews@gmail.com</a></span> <span style="font-size: small;"> </span> <span style="font-size: small;"> - Follow us on <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Death-Penalty-News-206848499362906/" target="_blank">Facebook</a> </b>and <b><a href="https://twitter.com/WebDPN" target="_blank">Twitter</a></b></span></div></div>

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2016 Report: Death penalty for gay sex in 10 to 14 nations

<div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_e24siI8vgepd4DKW4IRcXaqsv-eORFKVKQMlt95PcD373FWZcTxeX0nM3lh7sgxDWrqEPjAXwD8mpaZAfVjVTeZpVtURxtuaB5jOFcqD_uZGp0VvfMfD0inB0y2yopol4Ufd-c14Sx8/s1600/Executed+for+being+gay.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_e24siI8vgepd4DKW4IRcXaqsv-eORFKVKQMlt95PcD373FWZcTxeX0nM3lh7sgxDWrqEPjAXwD8mpaZAfVjVTeZpVtURxtuaB5jOFcqD_uZGp0VvfMfD0inB0y2yopol4Ufd-c14Sx8/s400/Executed+for+being+gay.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>10 nations with large Muslim populations have laws providing for the death penalty for same-sex activity.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Only a few actually impose the death sentence. Exactly how many is a difficult question.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The <a href="http://ilga.org/downloads/02_ILGA_State_Sponsored_Homophobia_2016_ENG_WEB_150516.pdf" target="_blank">2016 State-Sponsored Homophobia report</a> from ILGA, the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association, lists 13-14 places that threaten the death penalty for homosexuality, including the basic 10 plus several specific variations:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">One where executions occur - and go unpunished - despite the fact that there is no death-penalty law (<b>Iraq</b>);</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">One that has approved a death-penalty provision but has not yet incorporated it into the nation's laws (<b>Brunei</b>);</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">One that conducts executions but is not recognized as a nation (the Islamic State, also known as <b>Daesh</b>, <b>ISIS</b> and <b>ISIL</b>);</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">One where, in theory, a particular interpretation of its laws would provide for the death penalty but, in practice, no executions have been reported (United Arab Emirates)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The ILGA list is quite similar to this blog's list of those 14 countries, printed below:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A best-information-available list of countries/regions where executions for homosexual activity are carried out or are provided by current or future law:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Nations with such laws on the books; executions have been carried out</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">1. Iran</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">2. Saudi Arabia</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Nations with such laws on the books; no recent executions reported</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">3. Sudan</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">4. Yemen</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Nations with such laws on the books in part of the country; no verified executions for homosexual activity</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">5. Nigeria</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">6. Somalia</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Nations with such laws on the books; no executions reported</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">7. Afghanistan</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">8. Mauritania</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">9. Pakistan</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">10. Qatar</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Those are the "10 nations with large Muslim populations" mentioned in this article's 1st paragraph." In addition, executions and possible executions are an issue in 4 other places:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Nation with no such a law on the books; executions are carried out by militias and others</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">11. Iraq</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Not recognized as a nation; carries out executions</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">12. Daesh/the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Nation where such a law was scheduled to take effect in 2016 (but might not)</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">13. Brunei Darussalam</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Nation where some interpretations of existing law would provide for the death penalty, but no executions have been reported</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">14. United Arab Emirates</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">News coverage in all of those nations is unreliable at best, so specific evidence of executions for same-sex intimacy is rare. What's known about some specific countries is cited below.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In <b>Somalia</b>, a <a href="http://deathpenaltynews.blogspot.com/2013/03/gay-teen-stoned-to-death-in-somalia.html" target="_blank">gay teenager was reportedly stoned to death in 2013</a>, but those reports have not been verified.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In <b>Nigeria</b>,<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6940061.stm" target="_blank"> the BBC reported in 2007</a>, "More than a dozen Nigerian Muslims have been sentenced to death by stoning and for sexual offences ranging from adultery and homosexuality. But none of these death sentences have actually been carried out as they were either thrown out on appeal or commuted to prison terms as a result of pressure from human rights groups."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj85KMAwcQSWQ6aveguS1j5gJ4RUjyxxT5m6Ak7fKvfjyonv-tIcWiRfykQogXubTj1y2-ASaW6Hp9ZWJ5En6UIU3wImh7-KdKIxakySuFWqEh2wim-nVJ37CJxbDH3wJ62L_0yiuN9wxc/s1600/Executed+for+being+gay.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj85KMAwcQSWQ6aveguS1j5gJ4RUjyxxT5m6Ak7fKvfjyonv-tIcWiRfykQogXubTj1y2-ASaW6Hp9ZWJ5En6UIU3wImh7-KdKIxakySuFWqEh2wim-nVJ37CJxbDH3wJ62L_0yiuN9wxc/s320/Executed+for+being+gay.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>In <b>Sudan</b>, the death penalty is in frequent use, but there are no recent reports of executions for same-sex intimacy. In 2014, Sudan ranked at No. 6 worldwide in number of executions (23+) for various offenses, just below the United States, with 35, <a href="https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/act50/0001/2015/en/" target="_blank">according to Amnesty International</a>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Similarly, <b>Yemen </b>is No. 7 in frequency of executions overall, but the death penalty apparently has not been imposed recently for homosexual activity. <a href="http://www.refworld.org/docid/41501c7615.html" target="_blank">Researchers for Canada's Immigration and Refugee Board reported</a> more than 10 years ago, "Information on whether such sentences have been carried out was not found." More recently <a href="http://www.thetower.org/article/will-yemens-gay-community-survive-the-iran-backed-militias-trying-to-take-over/" target="_blank">an article on Yemen's gay community</a> in The Tower magazine stated, "Traditionally, that death penalty is not enforced, but citizens have been imprisoned for their sexual orientation."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Saudi Arabia</b> is No. 3 among the world's most avid executioners, with 90+ in 2014. At least in the past, beheadings were imposed for homosexual behavior, including <a href="http://www.refworld.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/rwmain?docid=3f7d4e1238" target="_blank">3 men in 2002</a>. Imprisonment and lashings are <a href="http://wikiislam.net/wiki/Persecution_of_Homosexuals_%28Saudi_Arabia%29" target="_blank">a more common punishment for same-sex activity</a>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Iran </b>is No. 2 in the world for frequency of executions, behind China. Those include executions for homosexual activity, although the facts are often unclear or misrepresented in such cases. (See, for example, "<a href="https://76crimes.com/2015/07/20/bogus-hanging-in-iran-bogus-tweets-in-egypt/" target="_blank">Bogus hanging in Iran, bogus tweets in Egypt</a>" and "<a href="https://76crimes.com/2014/08/11/series-of-public-hangings-in-iran-including-2-for-sodomy/" target="_blank">Series of public hangings in Iran, including 2 for sodomy.</a>")</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Evidence is a bit clearer about 2 war-torn areas - <b>Iraq </b>and the territory controlled by <b>Daesh/the Islamic State</b> (ISIS/ISIL). The ILGA report of 2015 noted that "Iraq, although [the death penalty is] not in the civil code, clearly has judges and militias throughout the country that issue the death sentence for same-sex sexual behaviours. ... We are also aware that in the Daesh (ISIS/ISIL)-held areas the death penalty is implemented (although a non-State actor, it is listed in the report)." For examples, see:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://76crimes.com/2012/09/28/iraq-has-become-a-death-trap-for-gay-men/" target="_blank">Iraq has become a death trap for gay men</a> (September 2012)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://76crimes.com/2015/05/07/islamic-state-has-reported-15-lgbti-executions/" target="_blank">Islamic State' has reported 15 LGBTI executions</a> (May 2015)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In some nations, the death penalty is on the books but is not imposed. ILGA in 2015 stated:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Brunei Darussalam</b> is due to activate t<a href="https://76crimes.com/tag/brunei/" target="_blank">he death penalty for same-sex sexual acts in 2016</a>, but it seems likely that like <b>Pakistan</b>, <b>Afghanistan</b> and <b>Qatar </b>although it is on the statute, it will not be implemented.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">ILGA reported in 2016 about Brunei: "there is no sign that the threatened death penalty is to be implemented."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">According to the U.S. Department of State, Mauritania belongs in this category too. <a href="https://cablegatesearch.wikileaks.org/cable.php?id=09NOUAKCHOTT815" target="_blank">A U.S. Department of State cable from 2009, released by WikiLeaks in 2011</a>, indicated that Mauritania has never imposed the death penalty for homosexual activity or any other crime.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">ILGA reported in 2016 that "although is understood that the <b>United Arab Emirates</b> has not implemented [the death penalty] under the Sharia code, it remains a possibility under interpretations current in the Emirates."</div><i></i><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><i>This blog post is a reprint of the newly updated version of this blog’s page about countries that threaten the death penalty for homosexuality, incorporating newly released information from the <a href="http://ilga.org/downloads/02_ILGA_State_Sponsored_Homophobia_2016_ENG_WEB_150516.pdf" target="_blank">2016 State-Sponsored Homophobia report</a> from ILGA, the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association.</i></i><br /><i><i><br /></i></i></div><br /><b>For more information:</b><br /><br /><ul><li><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2014/02/24/here-are-the-10-countries-where-homosexuality-may-be-punished-by-death/" target="_blank">Here are the 10 countries where homosexuality may be punished by death</a> (Washington Post)</li><li><a href="http://old.ilga.org/Statehomophobia/ILGA_State_Sponsored_Homophobia_2015.pdf" target="_blank">State-Sponsored Homophobia — 2015</a> (pdf) (ILGA)</li><li><a href="http://ilga.org/downloads/02_ILGA_State_Sponsored_Homophobia_2016_ENG_WEB_150516.pdf" target="_blank">State-Sponsored Homophobia — 2016</a> (pdf) (ILGA)</li><li><a href="https://76crimes.com/2016/02/16/report-somalia-too-risky-for-lgbt-people/" target="_blank">Report: Somalia too risky for LGBT people</a> (February 2016, 76crimes.com)</li></ul><br /><ul><li><b>Find related content on DPN <a href="http://deathpenaltynews.blogspot.fr/search/label/Executed%20for%20being%20gay" target="_blank">here</a></b></li></ul><br />Source: <a href="https://76crimes.com/2016/06/08/death-penalty-for-gay-sex-in-10-to-14-nations-update/" target="_blank">76crimes.com</a>, June 9, 2016<br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">- Report an error, an omission:<a href="mailto:deathpenaltynews@gmail.com" target="_blank"> deathpenaltynews@gmail.com</a></span> <span style="font-size: small;"> </span> <span style="font-size: small;"> - Follow us on <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Death-Penalty-News-206848499362906/" target="_blank">Facebook</a> </b>and <b><a href="https://twitter.com/WebDPN" target="_blank">Twitter</a></b></span></div></div>

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