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Russia, gay rights are moving further away from other European countries. In an
extreme version of Britain's section 28, a new law will punish anybody disseminating
"propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations among minors expressed in
distribution of information … aimed at the formation … of … misperceptions of the
social equivalence of traditional and non-traditional sexual relations". It has also
failed to comply with the 2010 judgment at the European court of human rights that
requires it to allow gay pride events. Violence against LGBT people is rising. In May,
there was a brutal murder of a man who had revealed to "friends" he was gay. Official
numbers of homophobic attacks are low, but LGBT activists say this is because
attacks are not often reported, and when they are police rarely label them as such,
but one poll last year of nearly 900 people by the Russian LGBT Network found more
than 15% had experienced physical violence between November 2011 and August
2012.
Last week, the Pink News reported neo-Nazi groups in Russia has been luring gay
teenagers to meetings, where they are forced to come out in videos that are then
posted on social media sites. It reported that one victim, 19-year-old Alex Bulygin,
killed himself after his sexuality was revealed.

In Iran, a place where homosexuality is punishable by death and you thought


LGBT rights couldn't really get worse, this year the country's official who
works on human rights described homosexuality as "an illness that should be
cured". Of course, gay rights are no better in many other Middle Eastern
countries. The ILGA (International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex
Association) provides a comprehensive look at state-sponsored homophobia in
a 2013 report.

Poland ranked as worst


country in EU for LGBT people
for second year running
ILGA-Europe notes in its country report on Poland that “the hate campaign
against the LGBTI community” has continued, and that it became a central
theme at last year’s presidential election, when incumbent Andrzej Duda
“degraded and scapegoated the LGBTI community on his way to victory”.
During his campaign, President Duda condemned LGBT as an “ideology of evil”
and promised to “defend children” from it as well as to introduce a constitutional
amendment banning adoption by same-sex couples.
Mauritania.[7] According to a 1984 law, Muslim men can be stoned for engaging in homosexual
sex, though no executions have occurred so far.[11] The country has observed a moratorium on
the execution of the death penalty since 1987

Homosexual intercourse is declared a capital offense in Iran's Islamic Penal Code, enacted in


1991. Articles 233 through 241 criminalise both female and male same-sex activity; the death
penalty only applies to some cases of male-male penile-anal intercourse, with female-female
activity and other cases of male-male activity being punished by flogging instead of execution.
[8]
 Though the grounds for execution in Iran are difficult to track, there is evidence that several
people were hanged for homosexual behaviour in 2005-2006 and in 2016, in some cases on
dubious charges of rape.

Somalia (  Jubaland), where Islamic courts have imposed sharia-based death penalties in
some southern regions

Homosexuality is illegal under Bangladeshi law, which is inherited from the British Indian


Government's Section 377 of 1860
llegal (imprisonment as punishment)
Section 377 of the penal code states that "unnatural intersources" with any men women or animal is punishable
for 10 years.
Not legal
Homosexuality is illegal in Bangladesh, so same-sex relationships are illegal as well.

Libia

Malawi

Eritrea

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