Tag: convicted
Transgender Russian Woman Faces Male Prison Sentence For Theft
Albina Matyunina was convicted for trying to steal $28 before her transition.
Concerns over pardons for convicted Northern Ireland gay men
A Belfast man investigated on suspicion of having gay sex in the 1970s fears there may be a low take-up in a proposed pardon for convicted gay men.
UK : Minister unveils plans to pardon thousands under ‘Turing’s Law’
Thousands of gay and bisexual men convicted of now abolished sexual offences will be posthumously pardoned, Justice Minister Sam Gyimah announced.
For gay people under Isis rule, isolation and fear of a cruel death
Before a crowd of men on a street in the Syrian city of Palmyra, the masked Isis group judge read out the sentence against the two men convicted of homosexuality: They would be thrown to their deaths from the roof of the nearby Wael Hotel.