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Human Rights Group depicts Jamaica as extremely unsafe place for LGBT community (Video)

A report by Human Rights Watch has depicted Jamaica as an extremely unsafe place for persons belonging to the LGBT community.

LGBT Jamaicans are vulnerable to both physical and sexual violence and many live in constant fear, Human Rights Watch said in the report. They are taunted, threatened, fired from their jobs, thrown out of their homes, or worse: beaten, stoned, raped, or killed.

LGBT rights director at Human Rights Watch stated “LGBT people in Jamaica face intolerable levels of violence and cannot rely on the police.”

He also stated “The authorities from the Prime Minister on down need to call a halt to the violence and discrimination, prosecute anyone responsible, and get homophobic laws off the books.”

  

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