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''Fairytale of Kathmandu'' is a 2007 documentary by Neasa Ní Chianáin. The documentary focused on visits by the poet Cathal Ó Searcaigh to Nepal during which he had close relationships with many young boys of 16 years old or older. The documentary questioned whether Ó Searcaigh's relationships with these youths were exploitative and whether they demonstrated a power and wealth imbalance between the 50-year-old Ó Searcaigh and the young Nepalese. Ó Searcaigh is presented in the documentary as paying for the housing, food, bicycles and clothing of boys. He mentions on camera having sex with some of them, denying that he abused them or that he coerced them into having sex with him. According to Ó Searcaigh, he had sexual relationships with only a "small fraction" of them, and that he has never indulged in anal intercourse in Nepal. In March, 2008, Liam Gaskin, who had been acting as his public spokesman, stood down as a result of a DVD launched to defend Cathal Ó Searcaigh by his supporters in Kathmandu. One of the people interviewed to support the poet turned out not to be one of those in the documentary, but someone with the same first name, who had also been filmed, but who failed to make the final cut. No one in Kathmandu had seen the film by then, and none of the people featured in the film had signed release forms. Vinegar Hill, the production company, claimed that as the subjects were "peripheral" to the film, release forms were not used. However all three Nepalese youths interviewed in the film gave verbal permission for the use of their interviews in the film, and a trained counsellor, Krishna Thapa, director of an EU-funded Nepalese NGO, Voice of Children, was present for interviews with two of the three youths. Ó Searcaigh has only given two extended interviews since the film was broadcast. The first was in Irish, on Radió na Gaeltachta on 26 March 2008.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=fichefocal.blogspot.com )〕 The second, "The Case for the Defence" was for Hot Press magazine, in English, in February 2009.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Hot Press )〕 ==Legality== The age of consent in Nepal is sixteen, thus no local law was violated. Nepal's Supreme Court held in November 2008 that banning same sex couples from marriage violated their equality provisions in their Constitution and directed the Nepalese Government to draft laws permitting same sex marriage.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Nepalese Supreme Court Decision )〕 However, given that age of consent in Ireland is 17 years old,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sexual Offences (Jurisdiction) Act, 1996 - Definition of 'Child'; )〕 and the Irish government can prosecute for foreign acts,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sexual Offences (Jurisdiction) Act, 1996 - Sexual offences committed outside State. )〕 the film caused considerable controversy in the Republic of Ireland. Following complaints by Fiona Neary of the Rape Crisis Network it has emerged that the Irish police force have been investigating Ó Searcaigh since 2006 following complaints from the film's director. Interpol has also been given access to footage from the documentary.〔(Interpol given access to film of Ó Searcaigh youths ) , Irish Independent〕 To date, no criminal charges have been brought, either in Ireland or Nepal. On Saturday 27 June 2009, The Irish Daily Mail reported that they had interviewed a youth who said he was 14 when he met Cathal Ó Searcaigh, and said he had sex with Ó Searcaigh just after he turned 15. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Fairytale of Kathmandu」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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