5 hours agoThe EU country's prime minister is pushing for Arab leaders for gay rights: I would be sentenced to death
Periskopi(7 years ago)
(7 years ago)Luxembourg's prime minister, Xavier Bettel, has clashed with Arab leaders for suppressing '%gay' rights, telling them that his marriage to another man would punish him with death in some of the countries they lead. The conference room at the EU and Arab states summit fell to [...]
The conference room at the EU and Arab states summit fell silent when Bettel made those statements, according to a German journalist, translates Periscope.
Betteli wrote on Twitter: “Being silent was not a choice for me. ”
Betteli is the first EU leader to have married a partner of the same sex, planned to say that at the summit, which was the first to bring EU countries together with those of the Arab League.
Homosexuality is punishable by death under the laws of maturity in Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Yemen. Other countries prohibit the activities of the same sex, including Algeria, Morocco, Oman, Tunisia, Syria, Kuwait, and some countries from the United Arab Emirates.
Syria, currently sponsored by the Arab League, was not represented in the summit. /Periscopi
