Is there hate crime against gays in dubai
Which countries impose the death penalty on gay people?
Around the world, queer people continue to face discrimination, violence, harassment and social stigma. While social movements have marked progress towards acceptance in many countries, in others homosexuality continues to be outlawed and penalised, sometimes with death.
According to Statistica Research Department, as of 2024, homosexuality is criminalised in 64 countries globally, with most of these nations situated in the Middle East, Africa and Asia. In 12 of these countries, the death penalty is either enforced or remains a possibility for personal, consensual same-sex sexual activity.
In many cases, the laws only apply to sexual relations between two men, but 38 countries include amendments that include those between women in their definitions.
These penalisations represent abuses of human rights, especially the rights to freedom of expression, the right to develop one's own character and the right to life.
Which countries enforce the death penalty for homosexuality?
Saudi Arabia
The Wahabbi interpretation of Sharia law in Saudi Arabia maintains that acts of homosexuality should be disciplined in the sa
Middle East
State
Domestic law[*]
Penalty
Ratified International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)[†]
Ratified Optional Protocol to ICCPR[†]
Afghanistan
BOOK TWO SECTION TWO CHAPTER EIGHT: Adultery, Pederasty, and Violations of Honour
Article 427
“(1) A person who commits adultery or pederasty shall be sentenced to prolonged imprisonment.
(2) In one of the following cases vow of the acts, specified above, is considered to be aggravating conditions:
a. In the case where the person against whom the crime has been pledged is not yet eighteen years old. …”
In Afghan legal terminology “pederasty” appears to refer to intercourse between males regardless of age.
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Egypt
Article 98(f):
“Detention for a period of not less than six months and not exceeding five years, or paying a satisfactory of not less than five hundred pounds and not exceeding one thousand pounds shall be the penalty inflic
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Last updated: 17 December 2024
Types of criminalisation
- Criminalises LGBT people
- Criminalises sexual activity between males
- Criminalises sexual activity between females
- Criminalises the gender expression of gender non-conforming people
- Imposes the death penalty
Summary
Same-sex sexual activity is prohibited under the Criminal Codes of the Emirates of Abu Dhabi, which criminalises ‘unnatural sex with another person’, and Dubai, which criminalises acts of ‘sodomy’. The Federal Penal Code criminalises ‘voluntary debasement’, but it is not distinct what acts this covers. These provisions carry a maximum penalty of fourteen years’ imprisonment. Both men and women are criminalised under the law. Lgbtq+ sexual activity may also be penalised under Sharia law, under which the death penalty is doable, though there is no evidence that this has been used against LGBT people.
In addition to potentially being captured by laws that criminalise same-sex exercise, trans people may also face prosecution under the Federal Penal Code 1987, which crimina
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