Austria has rejected the asylum claim of an Afghan national who claims to be fleeing persecution for being homosexual after not being able to find any gay pornography on his mobile phone.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo issued a statement on Thursday condemning nation states that punish or sentence to death people solely based on their sexual identity.
An Indonesian bill proposing a ban on gay sex has received support from all ten political parties in the country.
Indonesia’s Sharia police shaved several transgender women’s heads and “paraded them in front of the public” as part of a recent “community sickness operation.”
Several LGBT apps have been removed from the Google Play Store in Indonesia, the largest Muslim nation in the world, amid increased government persecution against LGBT people.
Indonesia, the nation with the largest Muslim population in the world, has sentenced ten men to prison following a raid on a gay club and sauna.
Indonesia, the largest Muslim nation in the world, “narrowly rejected” a law that would criminalize gay sex and sex before marriage this week.
A district in Istanbul, Turkey, banned an LGBT event that was set to take place on Saturday, citing “public order and safety.”
LGBT people in Turkey are concerned over a potential anti-gay crackdown in the country, after LGBT events were banned in the capital city.
Four men in Indonesia, the largest Muslim nation in the world, have been arrested for “spreading gay pictures,” and face up to sixteen years in prison, according to a report.
Investigators in the Muslim-majority Russian province of Chechnya are reportedly investigating one the many incidents allegedly involving the torture of gay men held in government-run “concentration camps” in the autonomous region.
Authorities from the predominantly Muslim Republic of Chechnya, an autonomous province in Russia, have threatened parents of gay children, warning them, “Either you kill them, or we we will,” reports France24, citing testimony from one of the victims of alleged concentration camps for homosexuals operated by the local government.
Gay men are reportedly fleeing what they describe as a brutal and deadly campaign against them by authorities in the Muslim-majority Republic of Chechnya, an autonomous province in Russia.
Russia’s Novaya Gazeta newspaper has asked the Kremlin for protection after Chechen clerics threatened “retribution” for a report on the torture and murder of gay men.
When Hillary Clinton described half of the Americans supporting Donald Trump as a “basket of deplorables” made up of “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic” people, she opened herself up to criticism about her own “deplorables”: The repressive regimes that gave millions to the Clinton Foundation, many of those high-dollar donations flooding in while Clinton was serving as Secretary of State.
In her response to the Islamic terror attack in Orlando, Hillary Clinton failed to mention that the Clinton Foundation has spent years accepting millions in donations from countries that throw homosexuals in prison, fine them, sentence them to hard labor, and even execute them for the “crime” of being gay.
