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...

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.

  • kescusay@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1144·
    9 months ago

    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.

  • Burn_The_Right@lemmy.worldEnglish
    686·
    9 months ago

    Conservatism is a global plague of oppression and death. It always has been. There is no such thing as a “good conservative”.

    • isles@lemmy.worldEnglish
      161·
      9 months ago

      Conservatism is code for “I refuse to learn from mistakes.”

      • Burn_The_Right@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        9 months ago

        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.

        • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          9 months ago

          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.

    • SidewaysHighways@lemmy.worldEnglish
      53·
      9 months ago

      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

      EDIT: SHIT

      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

      • Specal@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        9 months ago

        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.

      • sue_me_please@awful.systemsEnglish
        9·
        9 months ago

        There’s a reason he took the coward’s way out. Would have been much better to have held him accountable until the day he dies.

        • ipkpjersi@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          9 months ago

          This is true, but it also immediately ends the threat or risk of more damage by him. He can never have a prison break or be broken out of prison or anything because he is gone forever.

    • Seleni@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      9 months ago

      Yup. The problem is the definition of ‘not doing anything wrong’ can change very dramatically very fast, depending on who is in charge.

  • ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mlEnglish
    269·
    9 months ago

    This will certainly be solved through US intervention just like all the other times we saved women and homosexuals from oppression…

    • 【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】@lemmy.worldEnglish
      73·
      9 months ago

      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.

      • RealFknNito@lemmy.worldEnglish
        235·
        9 months ago

        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?

  • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
    199·
    9 months ago

    Always amuses me to see the superleft LGBT tankie squad defending Yemen, Iran, etc, because they’re anti-west.

    These places would literally burn them at the stake for existing.

    • Burn_The_Right@lemmy.worldEnglish
      42·
      9 months ago

      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.

    • BossDj@lemm.eeEnglish
      342·
      9 months ago

      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.

    • spacesatan@lemm.eeEnglish
      175·
      9 months ago

      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.

      • dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        31·
        9 months ago

        Lmao, Jamal Kashoggi, a Washington Post reporter, gets chopped up inside the Saudi Arabian embassy by Saudi hitmen and the US is like “Oh no! Anyway…”

        • Zaktor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          1·
          9 months ago

          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.

    • PugJesus@kbin.social
      136·
      9 months ago

      “Weird how when something is in the news, say for attacking civilian shipping in the most used sea lane in the world, it gets more scrutiny! I am going to attribute this to Imperialist Scheming™”

    • OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.mlEnglish
      623·
      9 months ago

      Why on earth are the terrorist organizationsUS military trying to go to war in Yemen?

    • bobs_monkey@lemm.eeEnglish
      261·
      9 months ago

      Lol apostasy is illegal in Iran, punishable by death, and is also incompatible with Islam. So you’re both a hypocrite and an asshole.

    • Adanisi@lemmy.zipEnglish
      21·
      9 months ago

      I’m sure the queer people unfortunate enough to be born there appreciate it.