Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdul Aziz will chair the 14th Islamic Summit Conference on May 31 in Mecca, a longstanding gathering of heads of state that dates back 50 years. (al Arabiya 29/05/2019)

Omar introduces bill sanctioning Brunei over anti-homosexuality law. US Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) this week introduced legislation that would bar any Brunei government official enforcing the nation’s "draconian" penal code from doing business with the U.S. The Brunei Human Rights Act would prevent any official involved in implementing Brunei’s the laws from traveling to or doing business with the U.S., as well as require reports to Congress

David Isaac, chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission in Britain told the Observer newspaper that the commission would be prepared to use its legal powers to protect the teaching of LGBT issues in the face of opposition from faith groups. “As a gay man who’s been very involved in the LGBT movement, I think identity politics have been hugely important historically, and it would be very easy to…

On May 16, 2019, the Supreme Court of Russia approved a new verdict against Karim Ibrahimov (born in 1963), already convicted by the Moscow District Military Court on August 17, 2016, to 17 years in prison in a high security colony on charges of organizing a Hizb ut Tahrir cell in St. Petersburg.