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Court sends same-sex couple to jail
By Gulf Times
Published: 05/23/2007

LAHORE, PAKISTAN - A Pakistani court sent a couple to jail on Tuesday on the grounds that the husband was actually a woman and that same-sex marriages were against Islam.

The husband, Shumail Raj, 31, had sex-change surgery and told a newspaper that a cousin was aware of the condition and agreed to marry because she feared being forced into wedlock with someone else. Read more.

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