Journalist jailed in Iraq over homosexuality story

[Newsjock]

Source: Associated Press

International media watchdog groups called Wednesday for the release of a freelance journalist jailed in northern Iraq for violating a public decency law by writing a story about homosexuality.

Adel Hussein was sentenced Nov. 24 to six months in jail by a court in Irbil, capital of the Kurdish-ruled region of northern Iraq, according to the Committee To Protect Journalists and Reporters Without Borders.

Hussein also was ordered to pay a fine of about $106, the organizations said. He is being held at Mahata prison in Irbil, about 220 miles north of Baghdad.

... The case centers on an April 2007 article Hussein wrote for the independent weekly Hawlati that detailed the physical effects of homosexual sex, the organizations said.

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[DavidDvorkin]

1. The U.S. rightwing will consider this further proof that we've succeeded in Iraq.

[ksimons]

2. the real story was about something else

oh sh*t, they printed that story about our homosexual sex acts

[Alter Ego]

3. DON'T READ THIS POST! YOU MIGHT CATCH THE HOMOGAY!

Seriously, these assholes treat it like a disease.

[donco6]

4. Evidently, there are no gays in Iraq OR Iran.

Go figger.

[silverojo]

5. I know the war in Iraq is horribly wrong

But when it comes to their Muslim "morals", fuck Iraq and all those gay/lesbian/woman-hating countries right in the heart.

This is what the American Taliban is trying to do to us. :grr:

[TrogL]

6. What do you bet this is a reprint/translation of some of Paul Cameron's nonsense

In other words, he's being jailed by a homophobic administration for homophobia. If so, the irony would be priceless.