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Eugene

(61,593 posts)
Mon Dec 14, 2015, 07:57 PM Dec 2015

Tunisia jails six students for homosexuality

Source: Agence France-Presse

Tunisia jails six students for homosexuality

Agence France-Presse in Tunis
Monday 14 December 2015 21.04 GMT

A court in Tunisia has sentenced six students to three years in prison each on charges of homosexuality in a judgment condemned by rights activists.

The court in Kairouan handed down the maximum sentence last week under a controversial article of the criminal code that criminalises sex between men, their lawyer, Boutheina Karkni, said on Monday.

The six were also banned from the city for five years after they complete their sentences, she said.

The young men were detained in November and December and made to undergo anal examinations after “neighbours denounced them”, she said.

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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/14/tunisia-students-homosexuality-prison-human-rights
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Tunisia jails six students for homosexuality (Original Post) Eugene Dec 2015 OP
Why? Betty Karlson Dec 2015 #1
I think it's often endemic to the human species for some to hate. They just have to hate RKP5637 Dec 2015 #2
Anal examinations for .... co-conspirators? Gay propagranda? Cheap thrills? closeupready Dec 2015 #3
More Muslim Country Fun aksptth Dec 2015 #4
 

Betty Karlson

(7,231 posts)
1. Why?
Tue Dec 15, 2015, 05:42 AM
Dec 2015

Why such harrassment?
Why the denouncing by neighbours?
Why the effective banishment?
Why the codified hatred?

RKP5637

(67,032 posts)
2. I think it's often endemic to the human species for some to hate. They just have to hate
Wed Dec 16, 2015, 10:10 PM
Dec 2015

and LGBT provides an easy target. The haters are very very sick individuals and don't get called out enough. And often they operate under the veil of religion finding anything they can to justify their hatred in their minds.

 

aksptth

(68 posts)
4. More Muslim Country Fun
Mon Dec 21, 2015, 10:02 AM
Dec 2015

Pretty well established that socially most Muslim countries are still stuck in the Middle Ages. Don't know what I'd do if I had to live in such a place. MOVE is an easy answer but many times easier said than done.

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