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No Room For Gay Community - Indonesia by petmax2020: 6:07pm On Aug 11, 2016 |
Indonesia on Thursday said there was "no room" for the gay community in the world's most populous Muslim-majority country, as activists blasted officials for an unprecedented series of LGBT attacks. A wave of angry rhetoric directed at homosexuals earlier this year - including a call to ban them from university campuses - was the first time senior officials had publicly attacked the Southeast Asian nation's gay community, Human Rights Watch said in a report released Thursday. Indonesia's lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) citizens have long been targeted by vigilante Islamist groups. But the community experienced an "immediate deterioration" in their rights following a sustained assault by ministers, religious hardliners and influential Islamic organisations over a two-month period, HRW said. In response, the government said protecting LGBT rights was not a priority. READ MORE http://www.petmaxflame.com/2016/08/no-room-for-gay-community-indonesia.html
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Re: No Room For Gay Community - Indonesia by omololu2020(m): 10:24am On Aug 12, 2016 |
When a government is focus,you wont give a dam about the western countries... |
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