Middle East / North Africa

Some nations in this Arab summit would executive me for being gay, Xavier Bettel said. (Diarmuid Greene photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons/Summit/Sportsfile)
Loud and proud at Arab summit
Location of Tunisia in northern Africa.
Death (denied) in Tunisia’s queer cell block
Rezvaneh Mohammadi (Photo courtesy of IranWire)
Iran puts activist on trial for promoting same-sex relations
Tunisia targets pro-gay advocacy at Shams
Gay Republican Richard Grenell is U.S. ambassador to Germany. (Photo courtesy of The Advocate)
Really? Trump official’s plan to fight Iran by pushing gay rights
Shams President Mounir Baatour holds a rainbow banner during an August 2018 demonstration in Tunis for equality and individual liberties. (Photo courtesy of Mounir Baatour)
Horror for a young man under the shade of Tunisian palms
Gay Tunisian flees to Europe to avoid prison for homosexuality
These three men, hanged in Iran in 2014, may have been convicted and executed for same-sex activity. (Photo courtesy of Iran Human Rights)
Executions for gay sex: 13 nations threaten it, 4 do it.
TV talk show host Mohammed al-Ghaity was sentenced to one year in prison for interviewing a gay man. (Photo courtesy of The Independent)
1 year in Egyptian prison. The crime? Interviewing a gay man
Appeal to Lebanon: Stop blockng LGBTI events
Location of Tunisia (Map courtesy of Human Rights Watch)
Tunisia: Raped, robbed, then arrested for homosexuality
Tunisian head of state Youssef Chahed (ITU Pictures photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)
European MPs urge Tunisia to halt gay arrests, torture
Video calls for an end to anti-gay murders in Iraq
Tunisia: Engineer loses job, faces trial for old videos on his phone
Tunisian prosecutors have relied extensively in recent years on forced anal examinations to seek “evidence” of sodomy, even though the exams are highly unreliable and constitute cruel, degrading, and inhuman treatment that can rise to the level of torture. (Illustration courtesy of HRW)
Tunisia, stop searching phones and anuses; abolish anti-gay law
Bomb threats in Russia, raid in Beirut; activists carry on