EMIRATI ARABI UNITI
 

Codice penale, art. 354

Indipendentemente dalle disposizioni di legge sui Giovani Delinquenti e Vagabondi, qualsiasi persona che  si impegna in un rapporto sessuale forzatamente con una donna, o in un atto omosessuale con un omosessuali, è punito con la pena di morte. La coercizione è riconosciuta se il condannato era persona di quattordici anni di età al momento della commissione del reato.

Gay.it, 11 feb 06

UAE Sentences Gays To 5 Years In Prison

February 11, 2006 - 11:00 am ET

(Abu Dhabi) Eleven of twenty-six men arrested at what police in the United Arab Emirates called a "gay wedding" have been sentenced each to five years in prison.

The 15 others were acquitted but are still being held until the government decides whether to have them retried.
The men were charged with homosexuality, a crime under Sharia law, although police acknowledged that non of the men were engaged in a sexual act when police raided the event.
Press reports from the capital say that the men did not deny being gay, although some of the accused reportedly identify as transgendered.
Lawyers familiar with the case say the sentences are likely to be appealed.
Police, acting on a tip, raided a hotel in Ghantout, a desert region on the Dubai-Abu Dhabi highway last November, and found what they descried as a dozen men dressed as female brides and a dozen others in male Arab dress. (story)
The case attracted worldwide attention when an Interior Ministry employee told reporters that the accused could be forced by the government to receive male hormone shots.
Esam Azouri told reporters at the time that a Sharia court could impose male hormone treatments "to direct the men away from homosexual behavior", five years in jail and a lashing.
In handing down its sentence Friday the court did not mention either hormone injections or lashings.
In 2005 UAE police made mass arrests at another event, also described by authorities as a gay wedding in the conservative emirate of Sharjah and at the Khor Fakkan beach resort in Fujairah emirate.
Two dozen men arrested in Sharjah were given symbolic lashings and then released from jail.
Sharia courts which uphold strict Islamic law have a history of imposing harsh sentences.