Death Penalty

Several countries still have the death penalty for homosexuality.

LGBT people are at risk of execution by hanging, stoning or beheading in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Mauritania, Sudan, Yemen and parts of Nigeria, Pakistan and Somalia. In Uganda, there have been attempts to introduce legislation to hang repeat homosexual offenders.

The Peter Tatchell Foundation opposes the death penalty in all circumstances, including for same-sex behaviour.

In mid-2010, we joined with others to help save from execution Ebrahim Hamidi, an Iranian teenager falsely accused of homosexual assault. In December that year, we also helped mobilise people around the world to stop the hanging of an Iranian Kurdish activist, Habibollah Latifi, who was sentenced to death after an unfair trial.

Help us stop all executions by taking the following two actions:

2 minutes: Donate!

We need financial help to fund our campaigns to stop the use of the death penalty against LGBT people – and others.

Donate here: http://www.petertatchellfoundation.org/donate

5 minutes: Lobby your MP!

Lobby your local MP to protest to those countries that still punish same-sex relations with the death penalty.

Ask your MP to write the Ambassador of one or more of the countries listed above, urging the abolition of the death penalty – or at least a moratorium on its use.

Request your MP to also write to the Foreign Secretary, William Hague, urging him to protest to the countries that retain the death penalty and to press for action against the death penalty by the EU and the UN.

You can find and email your local MP here: www.writetothem.com

Email your MP direct from this website, asking her/him to raise this issue - or you could even lobby them in person at their weekly local advice surgery (details from your local library or Town Hall).

Collective pressure is crucial to making a difference - the more people who know about and protest against the execution of people for homosexuality (and other offences) the greater the pressure to stop it. Please do what you can - and ask your friends to help us too.