Amendments to anti-prostitution law also enable courts to sentence trans people to three years in prison

Amendments to anti-prostitution law also enable courts to sentence trans people to three years in prison

Iraq’s parliament has passed a bill making same-sex relations punishable by up to 15 years in prison, in a move condemned as an “attack on human rights”.

Transgender people will also be sentenced to three years in jail under the amendments to a 1988 anti-prostitution law, which were adopted during a session attended by 170 out of 329 lawmakers on Saturday.

A previous draft had proposed capital punishment for same-sex relations, in what campaigners had called a “dangerous” escalation. The new amendments enable courts to sentence people to between 10 and 15 years in prison, according to the document seen by AFP, in a country where gay and transgender people already face frequent attacks and discrimination.

They also set a minimum seven-year prison term for “promoting” same-sex relations and a sentence ranging from one to three years for men who “intentionally” act like women.

  • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1062·
    5 months ago

    Its weird republicans hate middle eastern people so much. These guys are enacting the laws they wish they had.

      • Tiefling IRL@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        24·
        5 months ago

        Florida is already there. They’ve been trying to:

        • Allow the death penalty for sexual abusers
        • Make trans healthcare for children (and later, for anyone) a kind of sexual abuse
        • Reduce the number of jurors needed to give someone the death sentence
  • ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    5 months ago

    they’re proposing to lock same-sex partners together for 15 years? why not just let them live together by themselves – they save 15 years’ worth of taxpayer money per person!

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    21·
    5 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    Iraq’s parliament has passed a bill making same-sex relations punishable by up to 15 years in prison, in a move condemned as an “attack on human rights”.

    They also set a minimum seven-year prison term for “promoting” same-sex relations and a sentence ranging from one to three years for men who “intentionally” act like women.

    The amended law makes “biological sex change based on personal desire and inclination” a crime and punishes trans people and doctors who perform gender reassignment surgery with up to three years in prison.

    Lawmaker Raed al-Maliki, who advanced the amendments, told AFP that “the law serves as a preventive measure to protect society from such acts”.

    He said passing the new amendment was postponed until after Iraqi prime minister Mohammed Shia’ al-Sudani’s visit to the United States earlier this month.

    LGBTQ+ Iraqis have been forced into the shadows, often targeted with “kidnappings, rapes, torture and murders” that go unpunished, according to a 2022 report by Human Rights Watch and the IraQueer non-governmental organisation.

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    • Son_of_dad@lemmy.worldEnglish
      154·
      5 months ago

      Yeah, I mean before America showed up, they were all for same sex marriages over there. Saddam loved the LGBT community! /S

          • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.worldEnglish
            21·
            5 months ago

            I responded to a comment about the US invasion. It wasn’t me making anything about about something else.

            Sure I know what the real origin of this whole thing is. Islam, like the other Abrahamic faiths, is anti-LGBT.