Prostitution in Yemen

Prostitution in Yemen is illegal, but many sex tourists from other Gulf states indulge in what are known as "tourist marriages". The punishment for prostitution is three years imprisonment.^[1]^[2]^[3]

References

↑ "Country Reports on Human Rights Practices". U.S Department of State. Retrieved 8 March 2008.
↑ "YEMEN: Sex trade fuelled by poverty, study finds". IRIN. Retrieved 8 March 2008.
↑ Ulf Laessing (10 February 2010). "Desperate Somalis turn to prostitution in Yemen". Reuters. Retrieved 6 October 2011.

Prostitution in Asia

Sovereign states	Afghanistan Armenia Azerbaijan Bahrain Bangladesh Bhutan Brunei Cambodia China Cyprus East Timor (Timor-Leste) Egypt Georgia India Indonesia Iran Iraq Israel Japan Jordan Kazakhstan North Korea South Korea Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Lebanon Malaysia Maldives Mongolia Myanmar Nepal Oman Pakistan Philippines Qatar Russia Saudi Arabia Singapore Sri Lanka Syria Tajikistan Thailand Turkey Turkmenistan United Arab Emirates Uzbekistan Vietnam Yemen

States with limited recognition	Abkhazia Nagorno-Karabakh Northern Cyprus Palestine South Ossetia Taiwan

Dependencies and other territories	British Indian Ocean Territory Christmas Island Cocos (Keeling) Islands Hong Kong Macau

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