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  Iran to execute youth aged 18

 

4.8.2010

False accusation of homosexual assault - Now withdrawn by accuser. Ebrahim Hamidi faces execution by hanging, despite no legal representation.

His lawyer, Mohammad Mostafaei, forced into hiding by arrest warrant.

Iran’s Supreme Court twice rejects guilty verdict and orders re-examination. Provincial court presses ahead with execution plan, defying Supreme Court.

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Chief Justice of Iran, Sadeq Larijani

Will he veto Ebrahim’s execution?

 

 

  Iraq: The War Against Sexual Minorities Continues.

 

By Dan Littauer, GME Editor, and Iraqi LGBT - 2.8.2010 - Exclusive


You don’t even need to be gay or lesbian in Iraq to be in mortal danger from the Iraqi Police force. The latter have been mounting an aggressive campaign against anyone who is merely, by rumour, suspected to be gay or lesbian.

 

The Iraqi Lgbt network of activists inside Iraq have collected new and alarming reports of attacks on the LGBT communities during the month of July. Since June there have been consistent raids on... Full Story

 

Beirut is launched as a LGBT destination with the first ever gay familiarization tour of Lebanon!

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28.7.2010

GME News

San Francisco, Barcelona, Sydney, and … Beirut? As surprising as it sounds, the Lebanese capital is fast becoming a popular gay destination. In fact, The New York Times dubbed Beirut as "the Provincetown of the Middle East" in a 2009 article, while the Dutch

Winq magazine named it "the (gay) party capital of the Middle East."

Bertho Makso, the International Gay and Lesbian Travel Association (IGLTA) ambassador to Lebanon, is directing the first familiarization tour and symposium to Lebanon for professionals who work in the LGBT travel market... Full Story

 

  Iran: Mostafaei the lawyer of Hamidi disappears!

 

GME News - Exclusive!

25/7/2010

 

 

 

According to the Committee of Human Rights Reporters, there is no news of Mohammad Mostafaei’s whereabouts since Saturday afternoon. Mostafaei is the revered Iranian human rights lawyer defending Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, sentenced to death by stoning for alleged adultery. He is also the defence lawyer for Ebrahim Hamidi, a youth sentenced to death by hanging, for alleged homosexual assault.

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Syrian authorities release the group of men

alleged of “gay parties”!

22.7.2010 - Exclusive!

 

Syrian authorities finally released more than 25 men that have been under police custody for over three months for attending/organising allegedly private gay parties. Strong threats were made to them explicitly by a secret police office: "We won't tolerate any any future gay parties!"...   Full News

 

Breaking News: A youth is facing imminent execution in Iran based on a mere false accusation

Sign Now! Help Stop Gay Executions in Iran

By Dan Littauer, GME Editor and Joshua Hunt, contributing journalist - 14.7.2010

Exclusive

 

You don't even need to be gay or lesbian in Iran to be in mortal danger - a simple, unfounded accusation can be enough to see you sentenced to death.  On the 8th of July 2010...

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Iraq: Witch-hunt against gays and lesbians

 

Taken from Iraqi GLBT - 22.6.2010

 

There is growing concern that the Iraqi government is stepping up a witch-hunt against gays and lesbians in the country after a police raid on a Karbala safe house, the London-based Iraqi LGBT said at the weekend.
Last week, twelve police officers are reported to have burst into the safe house, and then violently beat up...
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Syria cracks down on gays, at least 25 men arrested!

السلطات السورية تضيق الخناق على المثليين

 

GME News Exclusive!

23.6.2010

 

Syrian authorities have raided more than four different private gay parties over five weeks between March and April, arresting more than 25 men on their last raid. Indictments have been officially submitted against them; most of the arrested guys are charged with "having a...

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GME News Exclusive!

23.6.2010

 

حفلات خاصة للمثليين في دمشق خلال شهر آذار وأوائل شهر نيسان، واعتقلت في المرة الأخيرة أكثر من خمسة وعشرين شاباً اتهمت معظمهم بممارسة اللواطة التي يعاقب عليها القانون السوري بالحبس حتى سبع سنوات أحياناً، فيما اتهمت بعضهم بترويج وتعاطي المخدرات، واتهمت البعض الآخر بتسهيل التجمعات الشاذة وتسهيل تعاطي المخدرات والترويج للشذوذ الجنسي....

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GME Editorial opinion:

Changing realities for LGBT communities in Syria?

Syria has in the last two years improved its treatment of its LGBT citizens, as compared to the period we have been monitoring 2003-2007. In what follows we outline a very... Full Editorial Opinion

 

 

UAE: Sex, maybe, but not in this city!

Israel: Tel Aviv Gay Parade 2010!

22/5/2010 - Taken from

The Daily Star

 

GMENews Reporter Dan Littauer

11.6.2010

 

On Friday the 11.06.10, Tel Aviv Pride was launched with the biblical message of peace and love: “thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself”... Full News

 

Lebanon: Thousands marched “Civil marriage, not civil war”

Egypt: Elton John Barred From Performing in Egypt

Taken from the Daily Times

26/4/2010

 

BEIRUT: Thousands of Lebanese marched to parliament in Beirut on Sunday in a peaceful rally demanding the secularisation of a state long built on sectarianism. The rally, organised by independent grassroots movement... Full Story

3.5.2010

 

The head of the Egyptian Musician Union has barred British musician Elton John for performing a private concert scheduled for May 18 because he made “controversial remarks attacking religion”…

Full Story

 

 

Bing censoring non-pornographic LGBT searches in 22 Arabic speaking countries!

 

GME Reporter: Dan Littauer

Date: 10.4.2010

 

BING, Microsoft’s search engine has recently started censoring non-pornographic LGBT searches in 22 Arabic speaking countries.  An extensive test carried out by the Open Net Initiative (ONI) revealed the extent of censorship on LGBT terms.  GME wanted to explore this further, and found out an interesting logic to Microsoft’s rather brutal censorship of, and disregard for LGBT Arab net users...

Full Story

 

 
  Latest News

UAE: Male Student Jailed for Prostitution

Taken from Khaleej Times - 11 March 2010

DUBAI - A male student was sentenced to one year in jail on Wednesday as the court found him guilty of prostitution. The Court of First Instance also ordered that his laptop...

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Lebanon's 1st male stripper: "Lots of gay men ask me to strip for them but I only strip for women"

Taken from

THE JERUSALEM POST

25.1.2010

Jamil Daher claims it all began rather innocently... Full Story

UAE: Man beaten by sheikh sues Swiss

Taken from The BBC - 18.11.2009

Silvano Orsi says Sheikh Falah al-Nahyan used a belt to beat him after he rejected a gift of a bottle of champagne at a hotel in Geneva in 2003. He was initially convicted of actual bodily harm ...Full Story

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Saudi: Homosexual-cum-impostor cop sentenced to jail and 1,000 lashes!

Taken from ArabNews.com

11.3.2010

 

 

Saudi: Man in police uniform on YouTube video, arrested for ‘homosexuality’!

10.3.2010 - Full Story

 

 

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