Police arrest and cut the hair of twelve transsexual women in Indonesia
GAYLES.TV.- Twelve transgender women were arrested by the police in Indonesia last Saturday night in the province of Aceh. They stopped them in a public area and cut their hair and forced them to wear men's clothes. The events happened before a group of people who recorded the terrible scene with their smartphones while booing them.
According to the chief of police, Ahmad Untung, the police action was justified since transsexuals annoyed neighbors with behavior that goes against sharia and human nature. They were arrested «until they were real men«According to Untung. It also qualifies transsexuals as a «threat worse than terrorists«.
This Indonesian region is the only one that is governed by the Islamic law, which criminalizes homosexual relations and sentences offenders to corporal punishment that can reach the 100 cane. The arrests were made in six beauty salons of the district North Aceh, north of the island of Sumatra, as confirmed by an activist LGTB.
According to the researcher in matters LGTB de Human Rights Watch, Kyle Knight, the local politicians of Aceh have worsened the situation by promoting homophobia. Last year two men were sentenced for the first time to be flogged in public for having homosexual relationships. In December a crowd alerted the Islamic police of the presence of seven transsexuals who were heading to a birthday party in Banda Aceh and they were detained by the authorities and released after being reprimanded. The NGOs denounce an increase in repression against the community LGTB en Indonesia.
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Sources: with the BBC, Gay Star News
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