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5 March 2015 - NPWJ News Digest on LGBTI rights
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Singapore blogger fined for contempt of court
By DailyMaily, 05 Mar 2015
Singapore's High Court on Thursday fined a prominent dissident blogger Sg$8,000 ($5,800) for "scandalising" the city-state's judiciary in an online commentary. Alex Au, 62, was punished over an October 5, 2013 post insinuating that hearing dates on a constitutional challenge to an old law criminalising gay sex between men had been rigged. Au, also a gay-rights activist, apologised to the court and paid the fine. He would have been jailed for one day if he failed or refused to pay the fine.
Slovenia allows same-sex couples to marry, adopt children
By Daily Mail, 04 Mar 2015
Slovenia joined a growing number of European countries that allow same-sex marriages late on Tuesday, almost three years after a similar law was rejected in a national referendum. Parliament passed the law giving same-sex couples the right to marry and adopt children with 51 votes in favour and 28 against. "This will be a step towards a truly patient and inclusive society with which Slovenia enters the twenty-first century," Matej Tasner Vatovec of centre-left opposition party the United Left, which proposed the law, told parliament before the vote. Two centre-right opposition parties and several civic groups fiercely opposed the changes, particularly giving same-sex couples the right to adopt children.
LGBT, Mormon groups announce compromise anti-discrimination measure in Utah
By The Washington Post, 04 Mar 2015
Utah lawmakers of both parties, Mormon Church leaders and gay equality advocates Wednesday praised a new bill meant to protect from discrimination lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, as well as opponents of gay equality who cite religion as a basis for their beliefs. The collaboration of a traditional faith group and gay rights groups on the divisive culture war issue was historic, said leaders from various groups at a midday news conference in Salt Lake City announcing the measure, which will be introduced in both chambers and is expected to be voted upon before the state session ends next week.
Isis fighters throw another 'gay' man off a tower – and stone him to death when he survives fall
By The Independent, 04 Mar 2015
Isis fighters threw a man accused of homosexuality from a building and stoned him to death when he survived the fall, a Syrian monitoring group has claimed. The man was reportedly thrown from a tower in the Syrian city of al- Tabaqa, west of the group’s defacto stronghold of Raqqa, according to the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR). The Observatory collects information from activists living in Isis-controlled territories. The killing reportedly took place in front of a huge crowd of people gathered below the building on Tuesday.
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