Iraq Criminalizes Queer Relationships With Maximum 15 Years in Prison

[Jessica_Rose]

Iraq Criminalizes Queer Relationships With Maximum 15 Years in Prison

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/iraq-criminalizes-queer-relationships-with-maximum-15-years-in-prison/ar-AA1nMAWt?ocid=windirect&cvid=60571c3cbfb94b708cbd319468bcd80a&ei=49

Story by Amanda Yen (27 April 2024)

Iraq's parliament continued to criminalize queer people on Saturday by passing a bill that makes same-sex relations punishable by up to 15 years in prison, furthering its extreme anti-LGBTQ+ legislation of recent years. The bill, which targets queer relationships on the basis of clamping down on "moral depravity," also criminalizes transgender people and the health workers who care for them. It threatens to imprison for one to three years anyone who seeks "biological sex change based on personal desire and inclination" as well as the doctors who perform their surgeries. The bill has drawn explicit condemnation from human rights groups, who have warned for years about Iraq's policies targeting LGBTQ+ people. "Iraq has effectively codified in law the discrimination and violence members of the LGBTI community have been subjected to with absolute impunity for years," Amnesty International's Iraq researcher, Razaw Salihy, told The Guardian. "The amendments concerning LGBTI rights are a violation of fundamental human rights and put at risk Iraqis whose lives are already hounded daily."

[Lori Dee]

passing a bill that makes same-sex relations punishable by up to 15 years in prison

Judge: "You have been convicted of same-sex relations and sodomy. You are sentenced to 15 years in prison where you will be sodomized." 

[Jessica_K]

And I thought it would be a nice place for a holiday....

Iraq, book for 2 weeks and stay for 3 years....

[Paulie]

15 years is such a deal, in Gaza they would throw you off the roof of a building.  Well back a few months ago when they had buildings to throw you off of.

In 2022 a 22-year-old woman in Iran was beaten by the morality police (and died) over the hijab law. Where were the young collage protested back then?

Iran is such a wonderful place, if you're a straight Iranian male.