news 13 people sentenced to death for being gay

[Psylocke]

A Huthi-run court in Yemen has sentenced 13 people to public execution on homosexuality charges, a judicial source said Tuesday, as human rights groups decried a rise in abuses by the Iran-backed rebels.

 

The sentences were handed down in Ibb, a province controlled by the Huthis whose attacks on Red Sea shipping since November have prompted retaliatory strikes by the United States and Britain.

 

Three others were jailed on similar charges, according to the judicial source, who spoke to AFP on condition of anonymity because he is not authorised to speak to the press.

 

Another 35 people have been detained by Huthis in Ibb province on homosexuality charges, the source said.

 

Videos shared with AFP, which could not be independently verified, showed a judge in a court reading out the death sentences on Sunday.

 

It was not immediately clear when the executions were due be carried out. The sentences are open to appeal.

 

Death sentences are not always carried out by the Huthis, who control Yemen's most populated areas and have been engaged in a long-running war with a Saudi-led coalition.

 

A 2022 report by the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor said the Huthis have sentenced 350 people to death since seizing the capital in 2014, and have executed 11 of them.

 

NGOs say rights abuses have increased since the Huthis started their harassment of Red Sea shipping, avowedly in protest at the Israel-Hamas war.

 

"The Huthis are ramping up their abuses at home while the world is busy watching their attacks in the Red Sea," said Niku Jafarnia, a Yemen researcher from Human Rights Watch.

 

"If they really cared about the human rights they purport to be standing up for in Palestine, they wouldn't be flogging and stoning Yemenis to death," she told AFP.

 

In December, Yemeni human rights activist Fatima Saleh Al-Arwali was sentenced to death on charges of spying for the United Arab Emirates, a member of the military coalition that intervened in Yemen in 2015 in support of government forces.

 

The Huthis, from Yemen's mountainous north, belong to the Zaidi minority, an offshoot of Shiite Islam.

 

The hardline force, founded with the aim of pushing for a theocracy, emerged in the 1990s, rising up over alleged neglect of their region.

 

It has been fighting a pro-government coalition led by powerful neighbour Saudi Arabia since 2015, a conflict that has left hundreds of thousands dead and millions on the brink of famine.

 

https://www.zawya.com/en/world/middle-east/13-sentenced-to-death-for-homosexuality-in-yemen-source-few6tnlh

[Psylocke]

This is the country of the "handsome pirate" gays were thirsting over and made go viral a few weeks ago btw 

[SlowGinFizzzz]

This is just so sad. 

[Komet]

Disgusting  The fact some users here were fangirling over them like a week ago   

[Cameltoe Chariot]

This is despicable.

 

So are Israel's war crimes, and those that use the murder of queer people in subtle whataboutism arguments to draw attention away from the Palestinian genocide.

[єѕℓαм]

Absolutely horrible 

[LadyDiana]

Let's talk again about how "horrible Biden is"... **** go out and ******* VOTE for lesser evil, or the other one will start **** like this in the USA. World is a ****** up place, don't take your rights for granted

[Squall]

It's time to stop these countries. Culture isn't an excuse, idgaf.

[ToMmY]

Religion of peace.

36 minutes ago, Psylocke said:

A Huthi-run court in Yemen has sentenced 13 people to public execution on homosexuality charges

 

The Huthis, from Yemen's mountainous north, belong to the Zaidi minority, an offshoot of Shiite Islam.

Religion of peace.

 

[Mitsouko]

Death to all religious people World peace

[Hurem]

Religion is the root of all evil

[ForgottenSoul]

I thought Yemen are nice peaceful people though...The fact is every country in that region is scum when it comes to human rights and LGBTQ rights. 

Edited February 7 by ForgottenSoul

[ForgottenSoul]

38 minutes ago, Cameltoe Chariot said:

This is despicable.

 

So are Israel's war crimes, and those that use the murder of queer people in subtle whataboutism arguments to draw attention away from the Palestinian genocide.

This is to do with Yemen and you find some way to bring Israel into it? Israel is the only country in that region that wouldn't kill most people that use this forum.. 

Edited February 7 by ForgottenSoul

[Zenyte]

5 minutes ago, ForgottenSoul said:

This is to do with Yemen and you find some way to bring Israel into it? Israel is the only country in that region that wouldn't kill most people that use this forum.. 

I dare any one of them to go spend a day in Gaza or Yemen or any of the other countries in the Middle East, lol

[SapphireSky]

How shocking and surprising!!! 

[Jjang]

people out here pretending like: 

 

1) people were praising the Houthis (or normal civilians like the teen Twitter fancied) for their homophobia, not specifically for imposing economic sanctions on Israel. 

 

2) Israel asks Palestinians if they are gay or not before killing them, throwing them out of their homes or torturing them. 

[Jjang]

21 minutes ago, ForgottenSoul said:

This is to do with Yemen and you find some way to bring Israel into it? Israel is the only country in that region that wouldn't kill most people that use this forum.. 

Israel would have had this entire forum wiped out of the civil registry in 3 months had they all lived in Gaza 

[VOSS]

It’s crazy how all it takes for some people to support fundamentalist genocidal regimes is support for Palestine  can’t wait for y'all to line up behind Putin after he attacks America and Israel in his Tucker Carlson interview

[State of Grace.]

How did I guess that users here would be using this absolute ******* tragedy to pretend that pro-Palestine people support this. You're all sick in the head.

 

 

Edited February 7 by State of Grace.

[Zenyte]

This is now the second thread on this forum created in the past couple of hours where people have turned a completely unrelated situation into an Israel/Palestine debate. What is going on with the blatant antisemitism smh

[Jjang]

Just now, Zenyte said:

This is now the second thread on this forum created in the past couple of hours where people have turned a completely unrelated situation into an Israel/Palestine debate. What is going on with the blatant antisemitism smh

literally the first comment from the OP referenced Palestine supporters 

[Johnny Jacobs]

quell surprise. its devastating to see how religion is the excuse for those crimes.

 

when will those fanatics stop god knows

[Psylocke]

1 minute ago, Jjang said:

literally the first comment from the OP referenced Palestine supporters 

Me? I didn't reference Palestine or Israel at all. The "handsome pirate" gays made go viral is from Yemen (and Huthis) isn't he? 

 

Merely pointing out the stupidity of Twitter gays who give such a terrible regime positive headlines while human rights violations like... killing 13 people for being gay gets lost in the noise with no second thought.  

[nadiamendell]

Oh wow. That's awful.

 

I guess we should bomb the whole country so it doesn't happen again!!!**

 

 

 

**Zionists on ATRL

[Sheep]

The mental gymnastics in this thread trying to justify murdering of our people makes me so sad. Not everything needs to be about taking a stance on a larger(usually unrelated) issue. How could you downplay your own people being killed because some other people are being slaughtered in mass numbers?  MAGA logic.  Two things can be bad and also be causing different degrees of harm in the world.

Edited February 7 by Sheep