Arrests and prosecutions for consensual same-sex sexual acts, or for diverse gender expressions, continued unabated across the world in 2021.
For its new report Our Identities Under Arrest report, ILGA World reviewed hundreds of cases over the last two decades in which law enforcements subjected LGBT and gender-diverse persons to fines, arbitrary arrests, prosecutions, corporal punishments, imprisonments and more – up to (possibly) the death penalty.
The organisation noted that the actual numbers, however, may be much higher as many cases may have never been formally registered, and oftentimes formal records are inaccessible or non-existent.