8 people in jail for gay party

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Indonesian police have arrested eight men for allegedly holding a "gay party" in the world's most populous Muslim-majority country, police said Monday. Amnesty International is 8 people in jail for gay party on the Indonesian government to release 74 men and one woman arrested at what police characterized as a “gay party” on Sunday near the capital city of Jakarta. Police named eight men as suspects and filed preliminary charges against them under Indonesia's tough anti-pornography law.

Two of the eight could face up to 15 years in jail for initiating and facilitating the event. This is the latest such raid on so-called “gay sex parties” in Indonesia. Police detained nine people following a raid on a “gay sex party” at a hotel in South Jakarta on 24 May, while 56 individuals were detained for participating in “a gay party” in a raid on a different hotel in South Jakarta on 1 February.

Officers took 14 people into custody after bursting into two hotel rooms in Surabaya, the second biggest city in the country. Since Sunday's arrest, police have named eight suspects, two of. Ostensibly aimed at protecting minors from information promoting non-traditional sexual relationships, the law effectively worked as a blanket censorship ban, stifling any neutral to positive expressions related to homosexuality. Advertise with us.

Under the ambiguously-worded laws, putting on a live strip show for the enjoyment of the public could be construed as "pornography". When Russian cinemas screened Barbie last year, they blurred a scene featuring one man kissing another on the cheek. Nine men on trial for homosexual behaviour could face death by stoning if found guilty. Link copied. Indonesian police displaying evidence from a raid on a building that houses a sauna and a gym in Jakarta in May.

Choose edition Singapore International. The seven sex workers were fined and then deported in March under the propaganda laws after they published their profiles on a dating website. Events More events. Earlier this month police made similar arrests in the city of Surabaya. At around the same time, six different online streaming platforms were penalised for airing movies with LGBTQ-related scenes. BBC Archive: The campaign for sexual equality.

In extreme cases, funds may be needed to help and LGBT or trans people from the country when they find themselves in jeopardy.

The law opened the floodgates for a spike in prosecutions. Another television channel erased a rainbow from the music video of a K-pop band, making it grey. Homosexuality is not illegal under Indonesian law, except in conservative Aceh province. Choose edition. All rights reserved. The men, who were tried in two separate closed court hearings, were sentenced the same day the Indonesian Constitutional Court rejected a bid to outlaw extramarital sex.

Prosecutors in the northern Nigeria state of Kaduna have charged a group of 53 people with conspiring to celebrate a gay wedding. These groups need resources to keep providing legal advice and support to those facing arrest and prosecution. That resulted in arbitrary and selective implementation by the authorities. Indonesian gay men sentenced to caning.

Africa Today. In Januarythe Hisbah, or Islamic police, in Bauchi state raided several locations and arrested about a dozen men accused of sodomy acts. Homosexuality is not illegal in Indonesia except in ultra-conservative Aceh province. Image source, AFP.