http://livesicilia.it/2013/05/02/espulso-dalleritrea-perche-gay-la-storia-di-un-docente-palermitano_308430/
Eritrea expelled for being gay
The story of a teacher Palermo
Thursday, May 2, 2013 - 16:54 by Sabrina Macaluso
According to the authorities would be "dangerous and potentially destabilizing the moral order and the country's public."
PALERMO - Expelled because gay. It happened to a teacher in Palermo service in Eritrea that local authorities did not have the 'credentials' to be able to teach because it deemed "dangerous and potentially destabilizing the moral order and the country's public." They told 'Affaritaliani.it' and the site 'gay.it'. The story was made known by the radical 'certain rights', which has exposed the incident to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Reasons for lapidary that leave no escape man, married for five years since 2008 with a fellow Chilean and guilty only of loving a person of the same sex. The professor, in fact, he never molested his students had neither compromising attitudes or allusori with them. To declare is the relationship of certain rights, which confirmed the impeccable conduct of the professor stating that "there has been no violation of Eritrean law and no wrongdoing within or outside school." This, contrary to what is stated by the
Eritrean government Marcello Fondi, Italian ambassador in Asmara, which began negotiations with the local authorities having only to provide the teacher motivation unofficial regard to hazard and incompatibility of his sexual preferences with teaching. The teacher of literature is now back in Italy. The practice has been entrusted UNAR (National Discrimination), to which certain rights filed a complaint. It will be the Italian Ministry of Interior have to provide answers about the incident "so that you intervene and compel the Eritrean Ministry to clarify the situation and give the reasoning official expulsion." "The undoubted gravity of what happened - says Certain Rights - it is clear that no more reprehensible conduct is attributable Italian teacher. The Technical Agreement on the status of Italian schools in Asmara and their staff of 21 September 2013, mentions sexual orientation as an element for an assignment working at the Italian school in
Eritrea. " In 2013, they are still 70 countries where homosexuality remains illegal. In Eritrea, in particular, is punishable by 3 to 10 years in prison. Article 600 states that "Whoever performs with another person of the same sex an act corresponding to the sexual act, or any other indecent act, is punishable with simple imprisonment."
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Received on Thu May 02 2013 - 12:09:43 EDT
