A Houthi-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 Houthis 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 authorized to speak to the press.
Another 35 people have been detained by Houthis in Ibb province on homosexuality charges, the source said.
Fucking horrific. This is 2024, and we’re still doing this shit? I have two - count 'em, two - LGBTQ+ kids, and I’m so goddamn glad we don’t live in a murderous shit-hole like that.
For now. Give the right wing enough time and power and they will get you there.
Conservatism is a global plague of oppression and death. It always has been. There is no such thing as a “good conservative”.
Conservatism is code for “I refuse to learn from mistakes.”
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Religion is a catalyst for conservatism. I despise it. But because there are so many non-conservative religious people who are not interested in oppressing or killing others, I now focus on conservatism as the problem.
Which is fair but so-called progressive religious types enable the conservative types. Pick your battles but I am going to pick mine as well.
No one should be sentenced to death for anything anywhere.
If we had a real true place to actually like, banish the ones who really couldn’t be taught to not be you know, like sadistic killers or some crazy CRAZY stuff I would totally agree with you. In a time where, say a benevolent AI could run an entire planet of habitual offenders of other’s rights and those people who (after repeated attempts at rehabilitation/therapy/education with all the correct and most up-to-date science about (whichever field in question)) can’t function in society without hurting other people can go BE. away from me then yes
I’d like to hope for a world where every affliction could be unlearned, or perhaps there is an environment where that kind of behavior can be tolerated (metamorphosis of prime intellect style)
But until then, on a finite planet, with individual beings… I’m not sure
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Forgot where the heck I was and which post this was on. I got a little blazed and kept forgetting I was commenting this until I’d open my phone up.
NOT CONDONING THE FUCKING EXECUTION OF SOMEONE BASED ON WHAT HOLE THEY WANNA PLAY WITH
The problem people have with the death penalty isn’t that they disagree a serial child rapist should be executed. It’s that people get falsely sentenced. It happens, it always has happened, it always will happen.
These the dudes Hasan is defending huh? Pretty bleak.
Hasan doesn’t blanket defend anyone. He’s all about nuance, my man.
He’s defending the Houthi wholesale and interviewed a pretty boy one giving him softball questions asking what fucking video games he plays. Sorry but what the fuck are you talking about?
Some people still think they have “nothing to hide” because they’re not doing anything wrong.
Yup. The problem is the definition of ‘not doing anything wrong’ can change very dramatically very fast, depending on who is in charge.
This will certainly be solved through US intervention just like all the other times we saved women and homosexuals from oppression…
It won’t be solved for that kid. But by denying the Houthis a country and denying their offensive capabilities, we ensure that they occupy an increasingly smaller and more isolated patch of desert and mountains that nobody cares about, and prevent them from expanding their rule over more people, whom it will oppress. It’s a conservative, religious fundamentalist, populist movement, that openly endorses terrorism and rule by assassination and violence. It’s extremely popular with the locals, those that haven’t been executed as infidels.
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republicans probably get all hot and sweaty reading shit like this
*Republicans salivate
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What the fuck is Israel doing to stop the slaughter of vulnerable classes by conservatives in the middle east?
Nothing. The answer is nothing. They are now assisting in it, if anything.
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Lol apostasy is illegal in Iran, punishable by death, and is also incompatible with Islam. So you’re both a hypocrite and an asshole.
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You are so incredibly misinformed and your worldview is tragically narrow.
Acceptance of LGBTQ+ sadly seems to only exist in the west. LGBTQ+ people exist everywhere.
