The 2020 amendment to the federal penal code removed stoning and flogging as legally prescribed punishments. The subsequent Federal Crimes and Penalties Law (2021) does not prescribe the death…

Sources: web.archive.org/web/2026060…

LGBT activities are illegal in the UAE. Punishments (under sharia law) include death, life in prison, floggings, fines, deportation, chemical castration, forced psychological treatments, honor…

Sources: www.hrw.org/report/2016/07/… www.lgbtqnation.com/2016/10… www.towleroad.com/2015/12/g… www.hrw.org/report/2016/07/… web.archive.org/web/2019051… www.nytimes.com/2017/11/11/… www.thejournal.ie/same-sex-… www.lgbtqnation.com/2016/10… www.refworld.org/docid/4a30… www.hrw.org/report/2016/07/… www.icrc.org/applic/ihl/ihl… www.nytimes.com/2017/11/11/… www.thejournal.ie/same-sex-… www.pinknews.co.uk/2015/12/22/judge-blocks-extradition-of-gay-british-man-to-uae-where-gays-can-face-death-penalty/ www.lgbtqnation.com/2016/10… www.wsj.com/articles/islams… www.mambaonline.com/2012/03… www.lgbtqnation.com/2019/08… www.queerty.com/gays-in-the… www.pinknews.co.uk/2015/12/…

The bill passed the Senate on June 16, 2026. After Royal Assent it will become officially law.

Sources: www.eerstekamer.nl/nieuws/2…

Conversion therapy is not yet banned in the Netherlands. The law doing so passed the house of representatives, but still has to pass the senate.

Sources: House of Representatives: www.tweedekamer.nl/kamerstu… Status of affairs sentae: www.senate.nl/9370000/1/j9v…

Under Niger's new law, same-sex relations will be punishable by a jail term of between five and 10 years and a fine.

Sources: www.rfi.fr/en/international…

In Niger, consensual same-sex sexual activity is not explicitly illegal. However, the country has a “public indecency” law that authorities have used to prosecute homosexuals. For example, in…

Sources: 76crimes.com/2025/08/12/nig… 76crimes.com/2025/08/11/acq… www.journalduniger.com/niam…

Article 234-2 When committed against a person or group of people because of their gender, their disability, their origin, their sexual orientation, their belonging or of their non-belonging…

Sources: hatecrime.osce.org/hate-cri…

Article 35A The Court, in the context of the exercise of its powers when imposing the penalty, may take into account as an aggravating factor the motivation of prejudice against a group of persons…

Sources: hatecrime.osce.org/hate-cri…

Article 22 [Aggravating circumstances] The following are aggravating circumstances: (…) (4) Committing the offense for racist, anti-Semitic, anti-Roma or any other kind of discrimination…

Sources: hatecrime.osce.org/hate-cri…