The Federal Council advises on the recognition of the three Maghreb countries Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia as safe countries of Origin. But Gays and lesbians are followed in all three countries.
The police had other consequences than expected. At the beginning of January of this year, a young man entered a police station in the Tunisian Sfax. There, he filed a complaint against two countrymen, who had him raped and robbed. In the course of the investigation, the young man was accused of homosexuality. In Tunisia, as a criminal offence and can be punished with up to three years in prison.
To educate the young man was then in Tunisia-possible – Anal-examination subject. He was then taken into custody. During the process, and in February he was convicted of the Offence of homosexuality to a prison sentence of six months. For six months he received, because he had not been raped, according to the judge, but the sexual acts committed contrary to his statement in agreement with the two accused. The two accused also received six months of imprisonment for homosexuality, in addition, two more months because of theft.
The arbitrary and to violence
A case like that of his compatriot was not the first of its kind, says Mounir Baatour, the leader of the Tunisian LGBT human rights organization Shams, in an interview with DW. “A lot of Gay to be blackmailed, robbed, or suffer sexual Assault, to go without, but then to the police”, Baatour. “You do not, because they are afraid to be in turn arrested.”
The arbitrariness of authorities, and civilian acts of violence against homosexuals are not only known in Tunisia. In Ben Aknoun, in the suburbs of Algiers at the beginning of February, was found the young medical student Assil Belalta murdered in his room in a student home. A report by the LGBT organization Alouen, two Unknown cut his throat and let him bleed to death. On the walls of his room, you wrote the word “Gay”. “The state of homophobia, the more and more”, – was stated on the Facebook page of Alouen to the social climate against which the crime took place.
Coming out in France: Abdellah Taia
Also due to the location of the Gay, lesbian, Bi and TRANS-sexual her party said, the three Maghreb States of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia as safe countries of origin to recognize, says the member of Parliament Luise Amtsberg, spokesperson of the Greens refugee policy. All three Maghreb countries found the exercise of homosexuality under penalty, both for women and men. “This is of course an absolute failure and contrary to all human law. These requirements will have to be in Germany, but the basis for this is that a country is classified as safe.”
An early Coming-out: Abdellah Taia
In the Maghreb countries, the social resistance against the homophobia is stirring in the small Parts of the population for quite some time. As one of the first articulated at the beginning of the new Millennium, the gay writer Abdellah Taia is the Problem. After he emigrated to France, outed himself in the liberal Moroccan news magazine “Tel Quel”.
The Moroccan society have opened up to the Modern Parts of said Taia, at the time, in an interview with DW. At the core, but they remained conservative. In particular, the relations between the sexes are strictly regulated. After a certain age the boys and girls are separated carefully from each other. For him, his homosexuality was “a deeply felt need,” Taia in an Interview. In several novels, he has taken up the issue of homosexuality. Today, he sees himself not only as a writer but also as a champion of LGBT-rights in Morocco in the Maghreb in General.
“We leave the civil society alone”
The Federal Council will debate this Friday about the controversial classification of the Maghreb countries as well as Georgia as a safe country of origin, but may not vote. A consent is valid as unlikely. You failed so far in the Green that are not ready, the classification of these countries as safe countries of origin to share.
Diversity as a richness: a Demonstration in Tunis in October 2015
This does not do your party also, because of the need to ensure that the German people the right to stay policy to be credible, says Luise Amtsberg in the DW-interview. It is a level country with a questionable human rights record as a safe, give their governments a “Persil ticket”. “At the same time, we have the civil society, the fight for improvements in this area alone. As a result, we do not contribute in the broadest sense, to fight the cause of Flight, but more aggravated.”
Homophobic pressure from several sides
The legal and social situation of lesbians and Gays for a change in the Maghreb countries, and only slowly, says Mounir Baatour of the Tunisian LGBT organization Shams. The Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi had declared recently that he was against homosexuality as a criminal offence should be abolished. “The pressure there is on the part of the Islamists. You are to put homosexuals in jail.”
To help gays and lesbians in the Maghreb States social recognition, is likely to be a long way, also Luise Amtsberg. “But we can’t make our contribution to the human subject, at least, is chasing hard.”
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