Homosexuality and gay sex are legal everywhere in Indonesia except in conservative Aceh province, but police have used the country's tough anti-pornography laws or drugs charges to criminalise homosexuals in the past.
This is an unofficial translation from Arabic to English by Human Rights Watch of Egypt's Supreme Council for Media Regulation's September 30, 2017 statement "prohibit[ing] the appearance of homosexuals or their slogans in the media."
Rakib’s story, however, is not unusual; it is the story of almost every homosexual youth in Bangladesh, a Muslim majority country, where homosexuality is frowned upon.
Seventeen states have hate crime laws that cover offenses targeting people on the basis of gender identity, but those provisions have led to few prosecutions.
About 150 homosexuals and transgenders were detained in Baku during police raids conducted in mid-September. Over a third of them were arrested for up to 30 days, the rest were fined.
