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.
The houthi rebels are very anti queer so I assume the Yemeni and Saudi forces they’re fighting against must be very pro queer. i will not be looking into this further or wondering why the geopolitical enemies of the US always face more media scrutiny.
They’re being sarcastic. We’ll beat the drums about the Houthis persecution because we want people to be angry at them (and thus supportive of greater military action), but the Saudis do the same thing (plus murder American journalists) and our presidents give them hugs.
This is from a Lebanese outlet. It’s full of pretty exclusively middle east news, and publically makes clear its agenda. The article was submitted by a frequent poster of a wide variety of World News from all over, commonly human rights violations. This guy particularly upped his posting game after explicitly saying he should post more after another prominent poster decided to take a break.
Also this is Lemmy. Nobody cares about us.
You are right, but you are oversimplifying too. Pointing out human rights violations by enemy states has always been part of political propaganda, sure. However, this must not distract us from the seriousness of these human rights violations themselves.
To do what exactly? Are we going to then do the same thing to Saudi Arabia, where we actually have some moral entanglements and some ability to influence?
There’s nothing someone in the West is supposed to do upon learning this fact. There’s no aid to withdraw or vacations to cancel to try to influence them to be less horrible. The only leverage is war.
Lol apostasy is illegal in Iran, punishable by death, and is also incompatible with Islam. So you’re both a hypocrite and an asshole.
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.
Conservatism is a global plague of oppression and death. It always has been. There is no such thing as a “good conservative”.
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.
