Horrifying news from the island nation of Sri Lanka: authorities have reportedly been whipping and anally torturing men who are suspected of having gay sex.
Watchdog group Human Rights Watch has blown the whistle on the practice, which remains common in the tiny country. Gay sex remains illegal there, punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
Now the group reveals that police will commonly whip men with wires before performing anal probes, either with fingers or other tools. Authorities argue that by examining the shape of the anus, they will find evidence of anal sex. Medical authorities have dismissed the idea as utter nonsense.
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Last year a transgender man reported being subjected to a “virginity test” where police probed the inside of his vagina following his arrest.
“No one should be arrested, let alone subjected to torture and sexual violence, because of their perceived sexual orientation,” Neela Ghoshal, associate LGBTQ rights director at Human Rights Watch told Gay Star News. “Sri Lanka’s Justice Ministry should immediately bar judicial medical officers from conducting forced anal examinations, which flagrantly violate medical ethics as well as basic rights.”
In addition to the criminalization of gay sex, Sri Lanka also prohibits marriage equality, allowing queer people to serve in the military, adoption by same-sex couples and blood donation by gay men and transgender women. The nation also continues to allow conversion therapy.
Cam
To state it more clearly, LGBTQ prisoners are legally raped by police.
Kieran
Sri Lanka is not a “tiny” country. It is larger than West Virginia and has over 21 million people.
PS. Why is there a sinister Russian looking guy on a story about an Buddhist majority Asian island?
Dez
Is Sri Lanka ever going to come out of medieval times?! JESUS! And they say that we are depraved in the west? America is far from perfect but at least we have laws regarding human rights like ya know, a CIVILIZED society. Always blows my mind that these savages act like being gay is so horrible, yet torturing people is perfectly justifiable. The pain that they inflict on others in this life will come back to them.
My2CentsWorth
It is odd. Just as odd as some Christians who profess to be all about love can be the most hateful critters on earth to someone who has a different religion, race, sexual orientation and etc.. A re-elected Trump will make the U. S. a bit more like Sri Lanka.
Hussain-TheCanadian
We have to be careful, awake and vigilant; we have people in the United States and Canada who want to do the same thing to us if we allow them an inch of power.
This is why you guys need to vote Trump and his cult out of power.