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or wofse. Police protection is often unavailable. ln some cases, the police have themselves tortured or ill{reated LGBT victims of crime seek¡ng assistance from the police. Often they fail to investigate homophobic hate-crimes or do not take written or verbal reporls of incidents. Police appear to also target health care providers working with the LGBT community and there have been several reports of nurses, social workers and others being unlawfully delained and
ill{reated by the police. The high levels of violent crime - including murder - against gay men and women are exacerbated by the fact that physical intimacy between men, even in pr¡vate, is a crime under Jamaican law. As a first step towards ending the violence and discrimination endured by LGBT people in Jamaica, Al wanls laws criminalizing sexual conduct between consenting adults of the saïe sex abolished. Other laws must be introduced and enforced to protect gay men and lesbians from abuse. The organization is calling for the Prime Minister to ¡nit¡ate a debate on this and to send a strong message that violence against LGBT people is intolerable. Jul -Sep 2004Newsleuer
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activities which the authorities considered hostile to the state. His lawyer was briefly allowed to attend and was told that the charges against him include "carrying out activities contrary to the socialist system of the state" and "opposing the objectives of the revolution", which could carry a sentence of up to 15 years in prison. The charges
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On 26 June, lnternationalAnti Drugs Day, we collected signatures to end executions in China. 26 June is a UNsponsored day to promote initiatives to stop drug abuse and drug related crimes worldwide. While most countries use the day to highlight their development or rehabilitation programs, the Chinese government chooses to use it to execute high numbers of people for drug related crimes. Many hundreds can be sentenced in a single day. AIHK, along with the local Coalition to Stop the Death Penalty,
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China and the US are two of the main offenders in the use of the death penalty and their opposition to the evergrowing number of countries abolishing the death Penalty.
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