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<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/AVvXsEjSGJDSuCRYjluI0pd5kEmnGYBc-R2oPIhiPVnP95gxkh23EJPlnDDqy8D1kwvjmKk9VJW0RuQwDrBsrak5JrY4RnnfDLHxs2-nUl_dERbWB4-YhEtfmFxkEbGDYhBsk80sk8UpwXjIe8A/s1600/Farrokh+Sekaleshfar.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Anti-gay Muslim cleric Farrokh Sekaleshfar" border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSGJDSuCRYjluI0pd5kEmnGYBc-R2oPIhiPVnP95gxkh23EJPlnDDqy8D1kwvjmKk9VJW0RuQwDrBsrak5JrY4RnnfDLHxs2-nUl_dERbWB4-YhEtfmFxkEbGDYhBsk80sk8UpwXjIe8A/s400/Farrokh+Sekaleshfar.jpg" title="Anti-gay Muslim cleric Farrokh Sekaleshfar" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Anti-gay Muslim cleric Farrokh Sekaleshfar</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;">A British sheikh who advocated death as the penalty for homosexual acts has left Australia ahead of a decision to revoke his visa.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The immigration minister, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/peter-dutton" target="_blank">Peter Dutton</a>, told Sky New on Wednesday he had already decided to cancel the sheikh’s visa and he was unlikely to be allowed to return.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Australian government <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/jun/14/visa-of-anti-gay-muslim-cleric-under-review-says-turnbull" target="_blank">chose to review the visa of the Shia Muslim cleric Farrokh Sekaleshfar after a video surfaced</a> of him telling a Michigan audience in 2013 that “death is the sentence for homosexual acts” in <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/islam" target="_blank">Islam</a> and this was “nothing to be embarrassed about”.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Sekaleshfar, British-born medical doctor and preacher, was <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/13/orlando-terror-attacks-muslim-cleric-death-for-homosexual-acts-sydney" target="_blank">due to give lectures throughout the Islamic holy month of Ramadan</a> at the Imam Husain Islamic centre in Sydney’s south-west.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">On Tuesday evening Sekaleshfar left Australia. He told the ABC the Islamic centre “thought it was in my best interests and for the best interests of the community” if he left, but said he had not been asked or directed to do so by the government.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Sekaleshfar said he had been “caught up in politics” and said: “Never have I incited hatred or violence against human beings. I want [everyone] from the prime minister to the people of Australia to understand that. And 99.9% of all the stories try to misconstrue that.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Dutton said: “I had made a decision last night to cancel the visa, and obviously this individual has decided to leave of his own accord last night, which we welcome. And it will be very difficult, if not impossible, for him to return to our country.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Obviously this individual understood what was on the way and decided to leave before all of that process could be undertaken.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Dutton explained that Sekaleshfar may have been granted a visa because he is a British citizen and may have applied electronically. “It’s difficult for the department to go through the Facebook or social media postings of millions and millions of people each year that would seek visas, and when we receive information we act quickly.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The prime minister, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/malcolm-turnbull" target="_blank">Malcolm Turnbull</a>, told 2GB radio: “The moment this man’s presence and what he had said was drawn to our attention, the minister and I spoke about it, the minister acted decisively and his visa was revoked.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The resources minister, Josh Frydenberg, added to condemnation of the Sekaleshfar’s views on Tuesday. “Certainly the views he has expressed publicly and indeed recorded on tape calling for the killing of homosexuals is completely unacceptable,” he said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“They’re abhorrent, they have no place in Australia, indeed no place anywhere in the world.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/jun/14/visa-of-anti-gay-muslim-cleric-under-review-says-turnbull" target="_blank">On Monday Sekaleshfar told Guardian Australia</a> the point of his sermons was not that “any Tom, Dick and Harry go and exercise the sentence”, adding that it could only be carried out by the state in a country where “the majority of people want Islamic law to be exercised”.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“The death sentence isn’t against homosexuals, it’s about people who, in an Islamic country, go in public and commit the act of anal copulation,” he said. “It’s only relevant when you do that act in public.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Sekaleshfar told the ABC the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/12/orlando-terror-attack-50-killed-nightclub-deadliest-mass-shooting" target="_blank">Orlando massacre</a> was not justifiable and denied that his lecture could have incited such violence.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“No speech, especially when you’re not inciting any hatred, it was given three years ago, that would never lead to such a massacre,” he said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“They’re connecting me to that … to that animal, they’re connecting me to him; not at all, he was an Isis sympathiser, a follower of [Abu Bakr al-]Baghdadi – these people are criminals.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Source: <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/jun/15/muslim-cleric-who-advocated-death-penalty-for-homosexual-acts-leaves-australia" target="_blank">The Guardian</a>, June 15, 2016</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><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>

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

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<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>