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ceedings on spurious charges,” Human Rights
W atch’s Hanny Megally said July 3.
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total of 50 gay men, lesbians and eunuchs
staged a “ Breaking the Silence” public
forum June 30 to July 1 in the southern city of
Bangalore. They seek equal rights, decriminal­
ization o f “carnal intercourse against the order
of nature” and social acceptance.
“People like us should have the courage to
come out in public,” a lesbian named Chatura
told A gence France-Presse. “W hile I was
growing up there were all sorts o f restrictions
on me. Now the time has come to break free.”
Imagery.
U N ITE D K IN G D O M
he city of London will begin offering gay
partnership registration and ceremonies
in Septem ber, M ayor Ken Livingstone
announced June 28.
Fiji Red Cross Society volunteers hit the streets
The London Partnerships Register is a “step
to promote World Health Day on April 7 in Suva
on the road to equality,” he said. “We have
some way to go, but [it] is a great start.”
F IJI
|P he director of the Fiji Red Cross Society
T h e registry will not confer the rights of
JL and his life partner were found dead and
marriage but will be useful when disputes arise
dismembered in their Suva home July 1.
about the nature o f a relationship in matters
such as tenancy, pensions, intestacy, taxation,
John Scott, 53, and Gregory Scrivener, 39,
were hacked to death. They were decapitated,
inheritance and immigration, Livingstone said.
and some o f their limbs were severed.
T h e cerem onies
Police arrested Apete Kaisau, 23, for the
will be performed
for about $125
crime July 9. They said he was one o f several
W ednesdays and
young Fijian men who Scott and Scrivener had
taken advantage o f sexually.
Saturdays at the
visitors center o f
Earlier, authorities questioned a fired bisexual
the G reater Lon ­
policeman and a drug dealer. Fijian newspapers
said the ex-policeman was seen with Scrivener
don Authority.
the day before the murders and had a history of
befriending gay men, then robbing them.
R U S S IA
Scott played a key role in last year’s coup,
plainclothes
functioning as a conduit with the outside world
police raided
for former Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry
two Moscow gay
and fellow hostages during the 56-day ordeal.
bars and a gay sex Ken Livingstone
Scrivener’s sister told several newspapers that
club Jun e 30,
Scott had been receiving death threats from
checking identifications and videotaping
people who were angry about his possible testi­
patrons, activists said.
mony in an upcoming treason trial against failed
The intrusions occurred at the bars Central
coup plotter George Speight and 12 other peo­
Station and Three Monkeys and at the sex club
ple. Sh e also suggested homophobia was a factor
Kazarma. Som e of the patrons were beaten, and
in the murders.
one man reportedly required medical treatment
“I know in my heart that this is politically moti­
for a fractured rib.
vated,” Judy Alvos said. “I told Greg to get out after
Activists said they suspected the unidentified
the coup, that he would come home in a body bag
officers were from the drug enforcement arm of the
if he didn’t— that’s exactly what has happened.”
Russian Interior Ministry. Six patrons of the sex
club were taken from the premises but later re­
Before the arrest of Kaisau, Police C h ief
leased after reportedly paying bribes of $ 10 to $20.
Isikia Savua said that no evidence indicated a
political angle to the killings and that the cou­
* “These unwarranted raids, irrespective o f the
ple’s homosexuality was probably the key factor.
authority o f the involved agency...violate the
“You must not forget that John Scott was a
privacy clause o f the European Convention on
known homosexual,” he said. “ In the past we’ve
Human Rights, to which Russia is a signatory,
had hom osexually m otivated killings with
the Russian Constitution and the Federal Laws
wounds caused that are similar to this one.”
on Police and on Operative Investigative A ctiv­
ities as well as internal police regulations,”
EG YPT
activist-journalist N ikita Ivanov wrote at the
total of 52 men arrested in a raid on a Cairo
Internet site Gay.ru.
gay discotheque May 11 will stand trial for
the crime of having gay sex. They will appear
D ELG IUM
before the Emergency State Security Court
elgium’s government has approved a hill
charged with “practicing debauchery with men,”
opening regular marriage to homosexuals
“obscene behavior” and “contempt for religion.”
and sent it to Parliament for a vote. Although
T he men could be imprisoned for up to three
several nations have gay partnership laws under
years for obscene behavior and for up to five
which same-sex couples receive up to 99 percent
years for contempt for religion. Two o f them also
of the rights and obligations o f marriage, only
are accused of “exploiting the Islamic religion to
the Netherlands lets homosexuals marry under
spread extremist ideas” and o f engaging in gay
the same laws as straight people.
sex “ in front of the remaining defendants and
“M entalities have evolved; there is no longer
others with the aim of insulting the heavenly
any reason not to open marriage to people o f the
religions and sparking civil strife.”
same sex,” the government said. “T he starting
point o f this bill is equality o f treatment in mar­
The men have been jailed at Torn Prison
since their arrests, and Amnesty International
riage for homosexual and heterosexual couples."
has said it considers them prisoners o f con­
However, the hill does not include equal
science. “This case exhibits some of the worst
treatment in the area of adoption rights, which
features of Egypt’s justice system— prolonged and
will remain available only to opposite-sex cou­
incommunicado detention and emergency pro-
ples. Unlike the Dutch marriage law, which
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