Wikileaks Releases Info On Gay Men In Saudi Arabia
WikiLeaks has put hundreds of lives at risk by exposing details of people’s private lives, including outing a gay man in Saudi Arabia where homosexuality is punishable by death, according to rights groups. The whistleblower site aims to fight repression through publishing restricted government material. The Aug. This collection, which the site launched in June , consists of over , files leaked from Saudi foreign affairs ministry. 
WikiLeaks outs gay people in Saudi Arabia in ‘reckless’ mass
The site, they wrote, also “published the name of a Saudi citizen arrested for being gay, an extraordinary move,” given that LGBT people can be punished with the death penalty in Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia is among the countries in which consensual same-sex sexual relations remain punishable by death. The Saudi government has also faced criticism over the treatment of women, migrant workers, and other groups in the country.
WikiLeaks outs gay Saudi in giant unredacted info dump
LBWhistleblowing group WikiLeaks is under fire for publishing Saudi government data that outs gay men, leaving them at risk of attack. Saudi Arabia is one of the world’s most repressive countries when it comes to LGBT rights, and gay people can face punishments ranging from a fine or flogging up to to the death penalty. Wikileaks is known for routinely publishing illicitly-obtained. In one shocking case, the site published the name of a gay man in Saudi Arabia, where homosexuality is punishable by death. The site has been blamed for publishing medical files belonging to ordinary people — and naming teenage rape victims. 
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Its original reason for being may be to expose governments of wrongdoing, but WikiLeaks recent data dumps have put innocent people at risk because the organization does not redact information. In the past year alone, the radical transparency group has published medical files belonging to scores of ordinary citizens while many hundreds more have had sensitive family, financial or identity records posted to the web. In two particularly egregious cases, WikiLeaks named teenage rape victims.
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Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) people in Saudi Arabia face repression and discrimination. [3] The government of Saudi Arabia provides no legal protections for LGBTQ rights. Both male and female same-sex sexual activity is illegal within the country. [4]: – The law of Saudi Arabia is uncodified; a Wahhabist interpretation of sharia, derived from the Quran and the. Earlier this year, Saudi Arabian prosecutors made a serious push to make demonstrating homosexuality in public or on social media punishable by death. To this day, those found guilty of sodomy run the risk of being sentenced to years of imprisonment, stiff fines, corporal punishment in the form of beatings, floggings, and lashings, and, in the most extreme cases, public execution. 
LGBTQ rights in Saudi Arabia
The AP, which is withholding identifying details of most of those affected, reached 23 people — most in Saudi Arabia — whose personal information was exposed. .
Saudi gay man’s life at risk after WikiLeaks exposure
That’s why notorious whistleblowing organization Wikileaks is coming under considerable fire for their most recent data dump, which exposes the personal details of thousands of Saudi people, including rape victims, people with HIV, men convicted of gay sex, and men detained for “sexual deviation.”. . ‘WikiLeaks Did Not Disclose “Gays” To The Saudi Govt
Jessica Kirson performed in Saudi Arabia, where consensual same-sex sexual relations remain punishable by death. .