Sexuality

A movement is born ... We no longer want to hide, we do not want to hug the walls, we do not want to stand idly by, we will no longer suffer in silence, we do not want more laws 333 and 338 of the Algerian penal code, we will no longer respond . Now we will act. A date is also born, Oct. 10 date is proclaimed National Day of gays lesbians bi and trans Algerian (LGBTQ). Selim I Selim also said the terrible is born October 10, 1470 is considered to be frugal and thrifty, very religious and brutal. Among its actions, Selim sent to Istanbul sacred objects sword, the robe, the standard of the prophet and teeth and turned the center of the Caliphate in Istanbul and became the first Ottoman caliphate.

Ce recueil assemble une dizaine d’enquêtes conduites dans les différents pays du Maghreb (Libye, Tunisie, Algérie, Maroc, Mauritanie), qui cherchent à élucider les conditions dans lesquelles se crée une économie sociale des sexualités, plus diverse que ne le laisse supposer le paradigme d’une « personnalité arabo-musulmane ». Refusant les perspectives « orientalistes » (une sexualité arabo-islamique expliquée à partir des textes sacrés), culturalistes (une configuration maghrébine de la sexualité), moralistes (des sociétés corrompues par l’Occident) ou militantes (défense des libertés individuelles, féminisme, islamisme), ces ethnographies contemporaines restituent les tensions entre individualisme et ethos communautaire, entre prescriptions nationales et locales, entre éthique occidentale et prédication religieuse, l’une et l’autre intensément médiatisées. 

An 18-year-old Iranian is facing imminent execution on charges of homosexuality, even though he has no legal representation. Ebrahim Hamidi, who is not gay, was sentenced to death for lavat, or sodomy, on the basis of "judge's knowledge", a legal loophole that allows for subjective judicial rulings where there is no conclusive evidence. Hamidi had been represented by human rights lawyer Mohammad Mostafaei, who has since been forced to flee Iran after bringing to international attention the case of another of his clients, Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, a 43-year-old Iranian mother of two who has been sentenced to death by stoning for adultery. Mostafaei was due to arrive in Norway yesterday to begin a life in exile while continuing his campaigns on behalf of his clients, including Hamidi.

Last week, 12 Iraqi police officers burst into a house in Karbala, beat up and blindfolded the six occupants and bundled them off in three vans, taking the computers they found with them. The house was then burned down by unknown people. The house was a new "emergency shelter" run by the Iraqi LGBT organisation. Two days later, one of the men turned up in hospital with a throat wound saying he'd been tortured. Iraqi LGBT has ordered those in its other two safe houses to move immediately.