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A Houthi-run court in Yemen has sentenced 13 people to public execution on homosexuality charges, a judicial source said Tuesday, as human rights groups decried a rise in abuses by the Iran-backed rebels.

The sentences were handed down in Ibb, a province controlled by the Houthis whose attacks on Red Sea shipping since November have prompted retaliatory strikes by the United States and Britain.

Three others were jailed on similar charges, according to the judicial source, who spoke to AFP on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to the press.

Another 35 people have been detained by Houthis in Ibb province on homosexuality charges, the source said.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

republicans probably get all hot and sweaty reading shit like this

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Always amuses me to see the superleft LGBT tankie squad defending Yemen, Iran, etc, because they're anti-west.

These places would literally burn them at the stake for existing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Always amuses me to see people beating up strawmen.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

No one should be sentenced to death for anything anywhere.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

There's a reason he took the coward's way out. Would have been much better to have held him accountable until the day he dies.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

This is true, but it also immediately ends the threat or risk of more damage by him. He can never have a prison break or be broken out of prison or anything because he is gone forever.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

If we had a real true place to actually like, banish the ones who really couldn't be taught to not be you know, like sadistic killers or some crazy CRAZY stuff I would totally agree with you. In a time where, say a benevolent AI could run an entire planet of habitual offenders of other's rights and those people who (after repeated attempts at rehabilitation/therapy/education with all the correct and most up-to-date science about (whichever field in question)) can't function in society without hurting other people can go BE. away from me then yes

I'd like to hope for a world where every affliction could be unlearned, or perhaps there is an environment where that kind of behavior can be tolerated (metamorphosis of prime intellect style)

But until then, on a finite planet, with individual beings... I'm not sure

EDIT: SHIT

Forgot where the heck I was and which post this was on. I got a little blazed and kept forgetting I was commenting this until I'd open my phone up.

NOT CONDONING THE FUCKING EXECUTION OF SOMEONE BASED ON WHAT HOLE THEY WANNA PLAY WITH

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

The problem people have with the death penalty isn't that they disagree a serial child rapist should be executed. It's that people get falsely sentenced. It happens, it always has happened, it always will happen.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Some people still think they have "nothing to hide" because they're not doing anything wrong.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Relevant picture i saw some time ago here on lemmy:

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Yup. The problem is the definition of ‘not doing anything wrong’ can change very dramatically very fast, depending on who is in charge.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Really, they don't have anything more important to be focusing on?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Religious folk are fanatically obsessed with other people's bedrooms. It's wacky. But I guess everyone needs a hobby. Too bad they don't just knit.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

That does seem likely to have much better outcomes for everyone.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

These the dudes Hasan is defending huh? Pretty bleak.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Conservatism is a global plague of oppression and death. It always has been. There is no such thing as a "good conservative".

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago

Conservatism is code for "I refuse to learn from mistakes."

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This will certainly be solved through US intervention just like all the other times we saved women and homosexuals from oppression...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

It won't be solved for that kid. But by denying the Houthis a country and denying their offensive capabilities, we ensure that they occupy an increasingly smaller and more isolated patch of desert and mountains that nobody cares about, and prevent them from expanding their rule over more people, whom it will oppress. It's a conservative, religious fundamentalist, populist movement, that openly endorses terrorism and rule by assassination and violence. It's extremely popular with the locals, those that haven't been executed as infidels.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

So we'll do Saudi Arabia next?