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Related: About this forumTunisia 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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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
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
Betty Karlson
(7,231 posts)1. Why?
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
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.
closeupready
(29,503 posts)3. Anal examinations for .... co-conspirators? Gay propagranda? Cheap thrills?
K&R
aksptth
(68 posts)4. More Muslim Country Fun
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.