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Related: About this forumTrans Women Raped, Tortured in Kuwait
Over the last four years, transgender women have been subjected to increased arrest, torture, and sexual assault by police in Kuwait, according to a new report by the Human Rights Watch (HRW).The title of the 63-page report which documents abuses since 2008: They Hunt Us Down for Fun: Discrimination and Violence Against Transgender Women in Kuwait.
Nadim Houry, the Middle East and North Africa Deputy Director for HRW, told the Kuwait Timesthat authorities are using Article 198 of a 2007 Kuwait law, which arbitrarily criminalizes imitating the opposite sex, to justify abusing transgender people: The law has been a huge enabling factor to arrest and abuse members of the transgender. It is like giving a green light to authorities, not only to police but even members of society, to arrest and torture transgender persons and use force and impunity against them. Just before amending the law, we did not see such a huge number of abuses against transgender."
No one regardless of his or her gender identity deserves to be arrested on the basis of a vague, arbitrary law and then abused and tortured by police, said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at Human Rights Watch. The Kuwaiti government has a duty to protect all of its residents, including groups who face popular disapproval, from brutal police behavior and the application of an unfair law.
http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2012/01/16/Trans_Women_Raped_Tortured_in_Kuwait/
Guy Montag
(126 posts)Transgender people should be accepted solely as the gender they know themselves to be. Thanks for the heads up on this. We never should of defended this dump of a land in GHW Bus's little NeoCon war in 1990.
Zorra
(27,670 posts)make hate crimes legal.
They're demented sociopaths. All of them.
grrrr
William769
(55,147 posts)Fearless
(18,421 posts)Just so long as it isn't happening to people that look/act/thing/etc. like them.
Fucking disgusting.