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Title: Arrests in Kuwait Target Transgender People
Post by: Shana A on January 26, 2008, 07:33:10 AM
Post by: Shana A on January 26, 2008, 07:33:10 AM
Arrests in Kuwait Target Transgender People
http://www.gaywired.com/article.cfm?section=66&id=17946 (http://www.gaywired.com/article.cfm?section=66&id=17946)
Article courtesy of UK Gay News/Human Rights Watch
Article Date: 01/26/2008
Authorities should immediately release more than a dozen persons jailed under Kuwait's new dress-code law, Human Rights Watch said last week.
The law, approved by the National Assembly on December 10, 2007, criminalizes people who "imitate the appearance of the opposite sex."
http://www.gaywired.com/article.cfm?section=66&id=17946 (http://www.gaywired.com/article.cfm?section=66&id=17946)
Article courtesy of UK Gay News/Human Rights Watch
Article Date: 01/26/2008
Authorities should immediately release more than a dozen persons jailed under Kuwait's new dress-code law, Human Rights Watch said last week.
The law, approved by the National Assembly on December 10, 2007, criminalizes people who "imitate the appearance of the opposite sex."