IBAHRI condemns LGBTQ+ ‘registry’ in Tajikistan

Friday 29 September 2017

The Tajik Prosecutor-General’s Office announced in October 2017 that an official registry had been compiled on LGBTQ+ Tajik citizens. The announcement was given in an article published in an official journal and mentioned there were 367 homosexual men and women within the registry. The official argument is that the policy will “prevent the transmission of sexually transmitted diseases.”¹

The International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) publicly condemned this news on social media.

View the Facebook post here: https://www.facebook.com/IBAhumanrights/posts/1407987362647588

¹ https://www.rferl.org/a/tajikistan-lgbt-registry/28800614.html?fbclid=IwAR2Fkk-zdocsmAGhecld-sgMRbK56DXNPwchbzQjpvatgoeJM417oiTRrJo

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IBAHRI condemns LGBTQ+ ‘registry’ in Tajikistan

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