Via refugee E. (Queer-straight solidarity):
Stop the gay persecution, and gay slaughter, and gay execution! À bas les tyrans!
Samuel Barber: Adagio for Strings
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtjKvif3z8Q
99 who are in prison for being gay, 148 more awaiting trial … listing 247 people is probably an extreme understatement
… Listing 247 people is probably an extreme understatement of the number of people who are behind bars or awaiting trial on homosexuality-related charges, but finding out about specific cases is difficult, especially in countries without a free press. Where the latest information is unavailable, some estimates of cases’ current status are included in the figures above and are explained in the lists below.
The lists below provide a narrow window into just one of many types of injustice affecting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people, sometimes with fatal results. (See the section “Other injustices facing LGBTI people” below.)
At present, the lists are led by:
- Nigeria (an estimated 23 people in prison and 15 free awaiting trials)
- Egypt (an estimated 13 in prison and 47 free awaiting trials)
- Saudi Arabia (an estimated 22 in prison, according to specific reports; hundreds of other cases cited without any specifics)
- Gambia (12 recently reported as arrested and detained during ongoing investigations)
- Morocco (8 specific cases of people imprisoned; dozens more people reportedly arrested and tried)
- Lebanon (7 people in jail awaiting charges; 20 more released on bail awaiting court action)
- Cameroon (6 people in prison; 12 free awaiting court action)
Other countries on the list are Iran (24 awaiting court action), India (13 awaiting court action), Uganda (11 awaiting court action), Malawi (3 in prison), Zambia (3 awaiting court action), United Arab Emirates (2), Zimbabwe (2), Ghana (2), Senegal (1) and Malaysia (1). …
http://76crimes.com/12-in-prison-for-being-gay-13-more-awaiting-trial/#Cameroon
Here are the 10 countries where homosexuality may be punished by death
Yemen: According to 1994 penal code, married men can be sentenced to death by stoning for homosexual intercourse. Unmarried men face whipping or one year in prison. Women face up to seven years in prison.
Iran: In accordance with sharia law, homosexual intercourse between men can be punished by death, and men can be flogged for lesser acts such as kissing. Women may be flogged.
Iraq: The penal code does not expressly prohibit homosexual acts, but people have been killed by militias and sentenced to death by judges citing sharia law.
Mauritania: Muslim men engaging in homosexual sex can be stoned to death, according to a 1984 law. Women face prison.
Nigeria: Federal law classifies homosexual behavior as a felony punishable by imprisonment, but several states have adopted sharia law and imposed a death penalty for men. A law signed in early January makes it illegal for gay people countrywide to hold a meeting or form clubs.
Qatar: Sharia law in Qatar applies only to Muslims, who can be put to death for extramarital sex, regardless of sexual orientation.
Saudi Arabia: Under the country’s interpretation of sharia law, a married man engaging in sodomy or any non-Muslim who commits sodomy with a Muslim can be stoned to death. All sex outside of marriage is illegal.
Somalia: The penal code stipulates prison, but in some southern regions, Islamic courts have imposed Sharia law and the death penalty.
Sudan: Three-time offenders under the sodomy law can be put to death; first and second convictions result in flogging and imprisonment. Southern parts of the country have adopted more lenient laws.
United Arab Emirates: Lawyers in the country and other experts disagree on whether federal law proscribes the death penalty for consensual homosexual sex or only for rape. In a recent Amnesty International report, the organization said it was not aware of any death sentences for homosexual acts. All sexual acts outside of marriage are banned.