Sodomy equals silence.Sodomy laws may be a thing of the past in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , but for openly gay Uzbek journalist Ruslan Sharipov, 25, they're still a harsh reality Harsh Reality are a little-known, proto-prog band born in Stevenage, Hertfordshire out of the remnants of the Freightliner Blues Band (formerly the Revolution) in the early sixties. . In what international human rights groups decried as a politically motivated act, a district court in Uzbekistan on August 13 sentenced Sharipov to 5 1/2, years in jail, shortly after the media rights activist pleaded guilty to sodomy sodomy Noncoital carnal copulation. Sodomy is a crime in some jurisdictions. Some sodomy laws, particularly in Middle Eastern countries and those jurisdictions observing Shari'ah law, provide penalties as severe as life imprisonment for homosexual intercourse, even if the charges. The trial and conviction were the Uzbek government's method for silencing Sharipov, charged the Paris-based group Reporters Without Borders. "Everything indicates that Sharipov was arrested on false and sordid pretenses designed to rid the authorities of a bothersome dissident voice," the group's secretary-general, Robert Menard, said in a letter to Uzbek president Islam Karimov. The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of City-based Human Rights Watch raised concerns that. Sharipov had been tortured to confess to the accusations and suffered routine beatings while incarcerated incarcerated /in·car·cer·at·ed/ (in-kahr´ser-at?ed) imprisoned; constricted; subjected to incarceration. in·car·cer·at·ed adj. Confined or trapped, as a hernia. during the trial. |
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