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    The document summarizes LGBT rights and legal status of homosexuality in several countries around the world. It notes that homosexual acts can be punishable by death in Iran, northern Nigeria, Somalia, and Yemen. In addition, homosexuality is illegal and punishable by imprisonment in countries like Bangladesh, Malawi, Eritrea, and Libya according to inherited colonial laws or interpretations of Sharia law. The document provides an overview of how homosexuality is treated in the legal systems of various nations.

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    The document summarizes LGBT rights and legal status of homosexuality in several countries around the world. It notes that homosexual acts can be punishable by death in Iran, northern Nigeria, Somalia, and Yemen. In addition, homosexuality is illegal and punishable by imprisonment in countries like Bangladesh, Malawi, Eritrea, and Libya according to inherited colonial laws or interpretations of Sharia law. The document provides an overview of how homosexuality is treated in the legal systems of various nations.

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    Poland Ranked As Worst Country in EU For LGBT People For Second Year Running

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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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