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Topic: Arrests

The new items published under this topic are as follows.
Mar 26, 2008# Quickie Link: First Hate Crime Punishment in Croatia
Arrests (Croatia) - Josip Situm, 25, was detained by police for carrying the homemade bombs. He was charged soon after with planning to hurl the cocktails at the crowd. Although he denied the charges, insisting he decided after he arrived at the parade not to throw the bombs, Situm admitted that he disapproves of homosexuality because he is Roman Catholic. On 28 February, Situm became the first person in Croatia found guilty of a hate crime. He was convicted of endangering lives and property at the Pride parade and sentenced to 14 months in prison and psychiatric treatment. Situm’s conviction was a major victory for Croatia’s LGBT community, for whom street violence is nothing new.
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Feb 18, 2008# Quickie Link: Sharia Trial Pending in Nigeria
Arrests (Nigeria) - The trial of eighteen young men in Nigeria charged with dressing in female clothing and attending a Gay wedding may be part of a campaign to reintroduce legislation targeting Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual people. Cary Alan Johnson of the Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) was in Nigeria last week to meet the men and their lawyers. He has expressed serious doubts as to whether the men can get a fair trial. All aged between 18 and 21, they were detained by the Islamic "vice squad" at a hotel in Bauchi city, Nigeria in August 2007. Sharia law is enforced in the state and if found guilty of 'sodomy' the men could be executed.
# Note: Read more on Pink News

Feb 04, 2008# Quickie Link: Arrests for Senegal 'Gay Wedding'
Arrests (Senegal) - Police in Senegal have arrested several men following the publication of pictures claiming to depict a wedding ceremony between two men. The pictures were published in Icone magazine, whose editor, Mansour Dieng, has since received death threats. Mr Dieng has also been questioned by police over the issue. Homosexuality is illegal in Senegal but it is not clear whether the arrests were in connection with the ceremony or the death threats. The BBC's Tidiane Sy in Senegal said that at least five of the men arrested appeared in the photographs. The ceremony is believed to have involved a Senegalese man and another from Ghana or the Ivory Coast, who has not yet been found.
# Note: Read more on BBC

Jan 19, 2008# Quickie Link: Transgenders Jailed in Kuwait
Arrests (Kuwait) - Kuwait "should immediately release more than a dozen persons jailed under Kuwait's new dress-code law" since mid-December, the New York-based rights HRW said. "Kuwaiti authorities should immediately drop all charges against those arrested, and investigate charges of ill-treatment in detention," it said. According to HRW, the Kuwaiti National Assembly approved a law which criminalises people who "imitate the appearance of the opposite sex". Since then 14 people have been arrested. The new law targets namely "transgender people... (and) aims at further restricting their rights and completely eliminating their public presence," it said.
# Note: Read more on Adelaide Now

Jan 16, 2008# Quickie Link: Morocco Court Upholds Jail for 6 for Homosexual Acts
Arrests (Morocco) - A Moroccan appeal court on Tuesday upheld the convictions of six men jailed for homosexual acts after video images of a man dressed as a woman dancing at a party sparked street protests and a police investigation, lawyers said. The six were arrested in late November after rumours spread that a party they had held in the northern town of Ksar el Kebir was really an illegal Gay wedding. The Moroccan press pounced on the story, and Islamist groups condemned what they saw as an attack on public morals and demanded an official investigation. Hundreds of angry residents marched through Ksar el Kebir to demand "justice" and put pressure on the authorities to hand out harsh sentences. The six men were found guilty and given jail sentences by a lower court last month. They had all pleaded not guilty. The appeal court upheld a 10-month sentence against the party's alleged organiser, identified as F., for homosexuality and the illegal sale of alcohol, defence lawyer Mohamed Sebbar said.
# Note: Read more on Reuters

Jan 14, 2008# Quickie Link: LGBT Leader Arrested on "Child Porn" Charges
Arrests (UK) - The chief executive of LGBT Youth Scotland has been remanded in custody charged with possession of indecent images of a "child" or "children" under the age of 18 (the factual age of the alleged victims was not reported). Jamie Rennie, 37, is also charged with sending a message that is "grossly offensive, indecent, obscene or menacing", reports The Herald. He was committed for trial on December 24th. He has been suspended from LGBT Youth Scotland, an organisation working towards the inclusion of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender young people.
# Note: Read more on Pink News

Jan 04, 2008# Quickie Link: AI Demands Release of Six Facing Jail in Morocco
Arrests (Morocco) - Amnesty International called on its 2.2 million members worldwide to write to the Moroccan authorities demanding the release of six men who are facing jail because of their presumed sexuality. The six were convicted on 10 December under Article 489 of the Moroccan Penal Code for “lewd of unnatural acts with an individual of the same sex” – a video posted on the internet website YouTube was used as part of the prosecution. Their appeal hearing begins on Tuesday January 8. Fouad Friret and five other men were arrested following public denunciations that a private party held by the men on 18 and 19 November in Ksar El Kebir, a small city in northern Morocco, was simulating a Gay marriage.
# Note: Read more on UK Gay News

Sep 05, 2007# Quickie Link: Rainbow Association Accused of Crimes Against Morality
Arrests (Turkey) - Eighteen members of the "Rainbow Association," an association for transvestites, transsexuals, gays, and lesbians in Bursa were taken into custody on Saturday on charges of 'forming a gang to commit crimes, being an associate with a gang, and inciting prostitution.' The Bursa public prosecutor's office is continuing its investigation of the group. The police have been conflicting with the Bursa association for a while, said an activist who has been collaborating with the Rainbow Association in anti-war campaigns on the condition of confidentiality. He added that there have always been speculations about the kind of work the association's president Öykü Erven did, but that they have never heard of members staying in the homes rented by the association being pressured to prostitute.
# Note: Read more on Turkish Daily News

Aug 31, 2007# Quickie Link: Lenient Sentence for Severe Beating of Transsexual
Arrests (USA) - The man who severely beat a preoperative transsexual woman on Palm Beach was sentenced to four and a half months of probation. Palm Beach County Juvenile Court Judge Peter Blanc rejected recommendations from prosecutors and the Department of Juvenile Justice, who said the assaulter was likely to commit more crimes and should be locked in a high-security residential program. The teenager initially left, then went back and beat the victim so severely that she was covered in blood, lost teeth and was taken to the hospital. The father of the violent teenager was outraged that prosecutors did not charge the woman for sexual contact with a 17-year-old, a second-degree felony in Florida.
# Note: Read more on Palm Beach Post

Aug 01, 2007# Quickie Link: Lenient Sentence for Severe Beating of Transsexual
Arrests (USA) - The man who severely beat a preoperative transsexual woman on Palm Beach was sentenced to four and a half months of probation. Palm Beach County Juvenile Court Judge Peter Blanc rejected recommendations from prosecutors and the Department of Juvenile Justice, who said the assaulter was likely to commit more crimes and should be locked in a high-security residential program. The teenager initially left, then went back and beat the victim so severely that she was covered in blood, lost teeth and was taken to the hospital. The father of the violent teenager was outraged that prosecutors did not charge the woman for sexual contact with a 17-year-old, a second-degree felony in Florida.
# Note: Read more on Palm Beach Post