Posts tagged Human Rights Watch

Two months after a 26-year old in Tunisia approached the police to file a complaint against another man over an outstanding loan, both men have …

Saudi Arabia has arrested a 29-year-old Yemeni blogger for posting a video on social media that supported equal rights. Human Rights Watch (HRW) said that …

A well known Turkmenistani gay actor, and several others, have been sentenced by a local court to two years imprisonment after their conviction on charges …

MOSCOW: A Russian transgender woman is being sentenced to three years in a men’s prison on child pornography charges for posting several Japanese manga cartoons …

KAMPALA: 67 people are facing charges in Uganda after police raided a gay bar which is considered to be one of the last safe spaces …

Ugandan authorities have arrested sixteen LGBTIQ activists on suspicion of gay sex and subjected them to forced anal examinations after being detained last week. The …

A Ugandan LGBTQI activist has been brutally murdered as the African nation appears to backpedal on its reintroduction of the “Kill The Gays” law. According …

A Japanese woman has filed a lawsuit against the Osaka hospital where she works after her boss revealed to her colleagues that she is transgender. …

Human Rights Watch said that police in West Sumatra trawled Facebook and found images of two of the women hugging and kissing.

Documents and decrees reviewed by HRW suggest lists of allegedly gay and bisexual men could be handed over to authorities.