GLAAD: Iraqi Journalist Jailed For Writing Gay-oriented Article

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According to an article from The Associated Press, a freelance journalist in northern Iraq was jailed for violating an outdated public decency law by writing an article with gay subject matter. Abel Hussein was sentenced to serve six months in jail for April 2007 article that appeared in the independent weekly magazine Hawlati, and now media watchdog groups are calling for his release. According to the editor of Hawlati, the court looked into one angle and it considered the subject as unethical. Lawsuits have also been filed against the magazine’s former chief editor and publisher.